Cheap labor and the social contract

There was one a country, (on the other side of the Atlantic) where people had access to common lands. They could take their cows to these common pastures, and even raise food crops on these common lands. So starting in the 14th century the "owners" started to wall them off. enclosing them, effectively driving off the land many yeoman farmers, that era's middle class.

So surprisingly and shockingly (I know 20\20 is great) poverty went through the roof and they had a small crime problem. Gee who'd thunk!

So many of these formerly middle class sold themselves into oh a form of slavery that is told to us in much better terms. They left (the safety valve) to a land over the atlantic, a colony. They left as indentured servants, where especially early on many of them died while effectively being the property of the rich, who also used each and every one of their heads (we call those head rights) to expand their ownership over the land.

Effectively what you are seeing right now is a similar process. No, it has not taken 300 years... just thirty... things move faster. But what you are seeing is the cancellation of the social contract and the destruction of the middle class. What they want is CHEAP LABOR. Get over the icky factor, they'd never do it! That is exactly what they want. Oh and like those people in the 16 century it seems there is nothing we can do to stop the cancellation of the 20th century. I think there is something we can do. We are seeing it right now. But it will take a lot of blod, sweat and tears. We thankfully have not seen blood yet... but if anybody believes these people are incapable of murder... i got some cheap ocean front property in Nevada for sale. We are in a generational fight and unlike them, we don't have a colony or the Western Frontier.

Fer the record, I am doing what I can at distance, and that includes a red wardrobe.

I will make a point to wear red as often as I can. This is BADGER Red... I actually explained why to the guy at the regrister. He had that icky look in his eyes. So I told him, "you know, if Unions go, I hope you enjoy 14 hour days)....

I call that placing seeds.

people forget that The American Dream was bought with the blood of American workers. How many Americans understand that such an institution as "the weekend" was fought for.. and fought for HARD? Children are in school instead of in sweat shops? Do you think that happened by accident? Or by the sheer munificence of employers?

Get your heads out of your asses America. You run the risk of losing it all.

I started to do research into labor history because serious (as in published) general histories saw light in the 1960s the last time. Yes, we are seeing a couple new books, but not many. Labor history is a verbotten subject in many schools and I fear even universities. Some of the best research is, I am not kidding. 30 years old.

long ago, didn't it?

for publication. My fight will be, finding a publisher. I may have to self publish.