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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Tue May 7, 2013, 09:25 PM May 2013

Take the Big Bag



"Organize and Take the Big Bag" cartoon by Jon Lynch appeared in the Industrial Pioneer, June 1925. The cartoon shows an employer handing a worker his weekly wages which are just a small portion of the total wealth created by his labor power. The message is quite clear: the working class must organize and claim the full product of its toil. Thanks to laborarts.org for their great work making images like this available.
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Take the Big Bag (Original Post) TalkingDog May 2013 OP
Damn right! CaliforniaPeggy May 2013 #1
You could frame it also as: Newest Reality May 2013 #2

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. You could frame it also as:
Tue May 7, 2013, 09:43 PM
May 2013

We, collectively and by agreement provide an environment, infrastructure and the manpower for those who acquire wealth to do so.

Then, wealth tells us they are the providers and job creators. They grab the bag, (and to me it is somewhat like a petulant child who won't share toys) and say, MINE! Nyah!

That works so well, ey? The problem that is brewing may be that the effects of that rather pathological, (never enough and need for control) approach is that, within the confines of their affluent denials and delusions, they can be insulated from the growing threat of the potential results, i.e,, environmental and sociological.

They, (at least those not in the very tip of the .01%) should be becoming more uncomfortable about this "libertarian", neo-Liberal amassing of wealth and inequity. That is, if they plan to continue to live and move amongst those whom are impacted by their trustifarian arrogance, hubris and ideas of manifest destiny. They may fail to see what some consider an interconnectedness; which is obvious in the sense of the environment and hypothetically true at various levels and to various degrees, socially.

The wealthier amongst us are going to have to "sequester" themselves, more and more, or change the way they are playing the game.

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