tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4231927004458246757.post4768095451372858282..comments2023-10-26T07:55:01.303-07:00Comments on Wage Laborer: PretendingGreener Than Thouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00077142867349495997noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4231927004458246757.post-16276410005329839672009-08-10T06:33:30.235-07:002009-08-10T06:33:30.235-07:00We should embrace these events as welcome news. Wi...We should embrace these events as welcome news. With the trend over the last 30 years inexorably moving towards serfdom under an esoteric-industry-occupied uber-class it was inevitable that someday there would need to be a great, bloody showdown. But I feel the elite have tipped their hand and moved too fast too early. This is one more nail in their coffin, not ours. The internet will be remembered as the great marshaling force of the take-back of society by the 99%.Darohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965288170032365125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4231927004458246757.post-40174666171875817382009-08-09T10:39:18.014-07:002009-08-09T10:39:18.014-07:00Another thing about the credit card takeover is th...Another thing about the credit card takeover is that they can track your every purchase and move with credit cards. Big Brother knows what you do and what you like.<br /><br />It's like in Minority Report where as Tom Cruise walks along the street, the windows turn into advertisements tailored to him.<br /><br />I have gmail and my emails generate advertisements catered to my email sendings.<br />Creepy.<br />They keep talking about a moneyless society, where you have to use a credit card to buy things. I, personally, do not have a credit card, because I think it's none of their business what I buy.<br />This will be another forced subsidy of the FIRE industry, and a total invasion of our privacy.wagelaborerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16115736967725316875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4231927004458246757.post-46229122665064567752009-08-09T08:40:23.884-07:002009-08-09T08:40:23.884-07:00There has never, in my knowledge, been a law that ...<i>There has never, in my knowledge, been a law that forced every American to pay private corporations tribute.</i><br /><br />A bit apples and oranges here, but this reminds me of one of my pet peeves. Credit cards. As our economy moves steadily away from cash and checks as a method of currency transfer and steadily toward plastic credit and debit cards, we are approaching just the situation you mention in the financial "services" area. The banks exact a fee every time one of those cards gets swiped. It's basically become a sales tax placed on every American by private industry. It irks me no end.<br /><br />And you're right about the whole health care thing. This attempt got farther Clinton's did, but we still lost. Maybe in another decade or so, when the situation is even worse than it is now, we'll get some real reform. But I doubt it. Corporations are powerful and Americans are stupid...ryknoreply@blogger.com