Expropriation. It sounds cool and it’s closer to what we really meant by theft (because libs are going to look at us talking about theft and thinking that means we like robbing homeless people)
There’s something especially perverse about working to provide a necessary good, yet not being able to afford it yourself because the job you work providing it to others does not pay you adequately.
Anyone who bakes loaves all day just to afford a slice is not free. (p sure I saw this phrase as a Felix the Cat meme somewhere)
Prison is when a man is behind bars and the things of life are outside. But there is another kind of prison, where the things are behind bars and the man is outside.
I said this a few months ago. Elites don’t like inflation because the old-school theory is that wages have to increase as well. But inflation is going up and profits of big corporations are also massively up, meaning that most of the inflation is just corporations being more greedy and not raising wages at the same time. Elites will soon start to love inflation.
Wages never rise because of inflation. They rise because workers demand a greater share of the pie to provide their labor, and that only happens when they can negotiate. Inflation makes negotiating harder because it makes it harder for workers to have a stable cushion to fall back on.
The elites have always loved inflation. The idea that inflation is good for workers is pretty much a relic of really specific historical conditions (high levels of consumer debt, which was historically never a “thing”, legacy of union contracts which only happened because of Soviet pressure, etc). Normally, inflation is the best way to steal a bigger piece of the pie from your workers because a 3% raise in a 5% inflation world is an easier sell than a 1% cut in a world with 0% inflation, even though the latter is better for the worker. Inflation also helps all those loans you took out to speculate on crypto grow your business “pay for themselves”
