Comparative Modus Operandi

Sep 08, 2008 11:24

Modus Operandi: One's means of doing things. At 52 my m.o. is the same as ever. I want to live in peace. I want to enjoy community. I want jobs that actually do good for myself and other people. What ever the work such jobs are hard to find when one considers the corporate / power elite ownership and selfish misdirection of so many economic facets. It's very hard to find a job that isn't doing more to make a few people more and more your lords and you more and more a dependent and lowly kept wage serf than anything else. And the thought that that much to big a part of the value of your mental and physical labor is going only to make such mean snobs all the more your boss at the job and in civil society. They run the government too. Not us. They control the economy and the government. What does this say about their modus operandi?  Oh yes, to the question: "They?": An economically and politically classifiable minority of the population which dominates the people and course of the United States.

What does that, and the way we live as a result, mean about their modus operandi?

One must find a job however or one is cast into homelessness. That is: Given the clue that whatever one's past labors, one can go die under a bridge for all one's robbing rich ruled land of justice and freedom cares. So far I've always found and kept jobs as long as possible.

Before Christmas my five year benefit-less temp job as a social research field worker ends.  This job has been an exception, but overall I've worked for more customer cheaters than not. And more meaned down bosses than caring human beings.  And have I and my comrades really been done right for our labor? A sub living wage? No benefits? They can't do these things without us, but they treat us like dung. (All part of the contractor game helping the rich get richer.) At my economic strata of  honest labor the only honesty is from labor because management  and ownership are only condescendingly interested in human "resource" cannon fodder to be used and discarded to make themselves ever more powerful. The experience for us is that of being a near despised second or third class citizen.  I can't wait for my next adventure in this land of economic opportunity.

"the personal is the political"

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