The Frame Game
People both good and true have been struggling how to frame a new platform for the Democratic party.
As my signature asserts, parties divide, movements unite.
That said, I have worked out a ‘frame’ for labor driven society!
That which is so woefully lacking in our current society is a stake, a true role for each individual in our society.
Cash driven society says your vote is the great equalizer, your vote carries the same weight no matter if you are rich or poor…
But wait a minute. You are NEVER allowed to vote directly on the issues if the matter isn’t local. The only thing your vote provides you is who will decide in your name without ever consulting you.
How much influence do you have when your vote gives your right to decide to someone else?
No, a stake in the society you live in needs to be substantial, something worthwhile that is capable of sustaining you. A tool that you can use to build the life you want.
Ever wonder why you aren’t guaranteed a job? More importantly, a job that pays a living wage!
The problem with guaranteeing every citizen a job lies not with society but with the private ownership of commerce.
It’s not in private enterprises ‘best interests’ to hire everyone that needs a job.
To put a finer point on it, there really aren’t enough jobs to go around…which is weird because there certainly isn’t a lack of things that need doing.
No good citizen, the conflict here, simply put, is the good of society vs. the best interests of the owner class.
If everyone were guaranteed a job that paid a living wage the owners of private enterprise would have to charge outrageous prices in order to make their ‘customary’ profit margin.
That is, they do what they do not to serve society but so they themselves become wealthy.
That said, society be damned!
Do you see the problem? If we forced private enterprise to employ everyone, they’d pauperize the workers by charging insane prices.
Now the ‘living wage’ part of the proposition would really throw a wrench into the works!
How could they afford to pay their workers a living wage if they started charging insane prices?
Short answer, they can’t.
Obviously, something has to give.
Do you want a society where every member has a stake in that society through a job that provides them the means to build the kind of life they want. Or do you wish to continue to bust your backside until you’re old and gray (or replaced by a machine) to make someone else rich?
Only owners have a stake in our current society. We’re not talking homeowners here but those who own businesses.
While we’re all ‘able’ (meaning it’s not against the law) to open our own businesses, the simple fact that there isn’t enough market share to keep everyone’s head above water makes the assertion ‘anyone can do it’ absurd.
Even if there were six billion niche markets out there so everybody could have their own ‘unique’ product, people buy the basics first and you can count those on one hand.
Most of us don’t have much left over after we get through keeping a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs and food in our stomachs (and that most important item of all, wheels under our ass!)
Think for a minute just how important it is to have a job. While many of you would prefer to have an ‘income stream’, doing that requires exploiting your fellow humans, not a nice thing to do.
You see, those who do not lend their labor to society weaken that society by leeching off of that society.
Nothing happens without labor. It is only fair to require every member of society to surrender their labor in exchange for the benefits of civil society.
Not a life of back breaking misery for some that provides income streams for others. Where’s the fairness in that?
There isn’t any.
You know, criminals aren’t the only one who think people that toil for a living are chumps…your employer thinks so too.
Yet if nobody works, nothing gets done. If left to your own devices, Mother Nature would keep you busy 24/7 just trying to stay alive.
You probably wouldn’t mind working at a job if EVERYONE else had to do likewise. Work not only provides an outlet for your creative talents but it also gives you the added benefit of social interaction.
Yes good citizen, you would actually get outside your own four walls and see other people!
By and large people tend to get along with at least some of their co-workers. In an environment where the boss’s position was up for grabs every year, people would be a whole lot nicer too!
You see, if there were a tie for the boss’s job, those who would work under you get to vote for which person they’d prefer to work for…so being an asshole would likely work against you.
A guaranteed job provides social interaction, an outlet for your talents, a means of income and the knowledge that your labor was building a better world for us all rather than making some ingrate rich…aren’t those reasons enough to change the way things are?
More importantly a guaranteed job provides you with the security to plan for your future…
Right now most of us don’t know from one day to the next if we’ll even have a job tomorrow.
The change will do you good!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
As my signature asserts, parties divide, movements unite.
That said, I have worked out a ‘frame’ for labor driven society!
That which is so woefully lacking in our current society is a stake, a true role for each individual in our society.
Cash driven society says your vote is the great equalizer, your vote carries the same weight no matter if you are rich or poor…
But wait a minute. You are NEVER allowed to vote directly on the issues if the matter isn’t local. The only thing your vote provides you is who will decide in your name without ever consulting you.
How much influence do you have when your vote gives your right to decide to someone else?
No, a stake in the society you live in needs to be substantial, something worthwhile that is capable of sustaining you. A tool that you can use to build the life you want.
Ever wonder why you aren’t guaranteed a job? More importantly, a job that pays a living wage!
The problem with guaranteeing every citizen a job lies not with society but with the private ownership of commerce.
It’s not in private enterprises ‘best interests’ to hire everyone that needs a job.
To put a finer point on it, there really aren’t enough jobs to go around…which is weird because there certainly isn’t a lack of things that need doing.
No good citizen, the conflict here, simply put, is the good of society vs. the best interests of the owner class.
If everyone were guaranteed a job that paid a living wage the owners of private enterprise would have to charge outrageous prices in order to make their ‘customary’ profit margin.
That is, they do what they do not to serve society but so they themselves become wealthy.
That said, society be damned!
Do you see the problem? If we forced private enterprise to employ everyone, they’d pauperize the workers by charging insane prices.
Now the ‘living wage’ part of the proposition would really throw a wrench into the works!
How could they afford to pay their workers a living wage if they started charging insane prices?
Short answer, they can’t.
Obviously, something has to give.
Do you want a society where every member has a stake in that society through a job that provides them the means to build the kind of life they want. Or do you wish to continue to bust your backside until you’re old and gray (or replaced by a machine) to make someone else rich?
Only owners have a stake in our current society. We’re not talking homeowners here but those who own businesses.
While we’re all ‘able’ (meaning it’s not against the law) to open our own businesses, the simple fact that there isn’t enough market share to keep everyone’s head above water makes the assertion ‘anyone can do it’ absurd.
Even if there were six billion niche markets out there so everybody could have their own ‘unique’ product, people buy the basics first and you can count those on one hand.
Most of us don’t have much left over after we get through keeping a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs and food in our stomachs (and that most important item of all, wheels under our ass!)
Think for a minute just how important it is to have a job. While many of you would prefer to have an ‘income stream’, doing that requires exploiting your fellow humans, not a nice thing to do.
You see, those who do not lend their labor to society weaken that society by leeching off of that society.
Nothing happens without labor. It is only fair to require every member of society to surrender their labor in exchange for the benefits of civil society.
Not a life of back breaking misery for some that provides income streams for others. Where’s the fairness in that?
There isn’t any.
You know, criminals aren’t the only one who think people that toil for a living are chumps…your employer thinks so too.
Yet if nobody works, nothing gets done. If left to your own devices, Mother Nature would keep you busy 24/7 just trying to stay alive.
You probably wouldn’t mind working at a job if EVERYONE else had to do likewise. Work not only provides an outlet for your creative talents but it also gives you the added benefit of social interaction.
Yes good citizen, you would actually get outside your own four walls and see other people!
By and large people tend to get along with at least some of their co-workers. In an environment where the boss’s position was up for grabs every year, people would be a whole lot nicer too!
You see, if there were a tie for the boss’s job, those who would work under you get to vote for which person they’d prefer to work for…so being an asshole would likely work against you.
A guaranteed job provides social interaction, an outlet for your talents, a means of income and the knowledge that your labor was building a better world for us all rather than making some ingrate rich…aren’t those reasons enough to change the way things are?
More importantly a guaranteed job provides you with the security to plan for your future…
Right now most of us don’t know from one day to the next if we’ll even have a job tomorrow.
The change will do you good!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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