Cap's bad old days :)
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:04:40 -0500 (EST)
No, that's not the case, Camille. Capitalism doesn't mean the banning of
theater. It means theater is left to survive on its own, and theater
patrons and their money is what supports it. This means the death of
bad, poorly produced theater and the thriving of good theater, in
general.
Firing production workers is just a fact of life, and if you had ever
been near those kind of decisions you realize what motivates them. You
can only make people work so hard. Firing excess workers mean more
wealth for the company and better pay and benefits for the remaining
workers as well. Meanwhile the company that fires them (in America, at
least) pays out megabucks for unemployment compensation for workers that
aren't even being productive for them. But that's still cheaper than
keeping them on...
I live in Central FL (near Disney) and we're in a construction boom (I'm
an electrician), specifically because of greedy capitalists wanting to
make money here. There are far more jobs in my field than there are
workers right now, and I'm one of the better ones. So what's been
happening is that wages are going up and benefits are increasing to lure
workers. I've been able to demand more money and win because my
employers know I can get a similar job in a day, but they'll spend a lot
of time looking for an electrician like me.
This is all because of moneymoneymoney being spread around by evil,
greedy capitalists out to make a profit.
Your statements about the homeless sound to me like the words of someone
who's never bothered to try to help them :) I mean, really tried. No
one deserves that kind of existence, no. Many are trying to do better.
But many others wouldn't have it any other way, and have been defeating
themselves for years to stay that way. They spend every dime they have
on cheap wine and crack cocaine rather than try to hold a job and save
their money and buy FOOD. And there are always people around who are
passing out free meals and clothing (I help support these people), so
they can afford to spend the money they make at day labor jobs on drugs,
etc.
I know this because I've worked with these guys on a day in, day out
basis at different times in the past. Yeah, some of them do deserve
better. Ok, ALL of them deserve better. But many of them have no desire
for anything better.
It's kinda like Leaving Las Vegas. They want to keep at it till it kills
them.
Jim
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:57:35 +1100 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>Despite the fact that this is an argument I do not wish to enter into
>-
>you're saying that we should ban theatre because it doesn't make any
>money?
>Fire half the people at any given factory and make the remainder work
>twice
>as hard? Ban houses and build only flats? People who are homeless
>deserve
>to be that way because they have no buying power? Because that's what
>the
>Bad Ol'
>Days of Capitalism *really* mean.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
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