It is that when there is no work there is no work, and no amount of positive thinking can make it otherwise.
This is true only if you assume that ‘work’ is something that must be bestowed upon the individual by an outside power. It is, in fact, the cargo cult theory of economics.
I will have to apply for unemployment again, but if anyone tells me that it's my own fault - or the fault of any of the other translators who are similarly getting shafted - I promise I will react violently.
Cain’s point, which you seem to have missed entirely, is that it is not Wall Street’s fault. There is not a conspiracy of Evil Capitalists™ to put translators out of work.
Cain, as a member of the director class, has no right to say anything on the matter; his kind will never be unemployed and know nothing of it.
What is this ‘director class’ of which you speak? Cain is the son of a chauffeur who grew up in the Jim Crow era in Georgia, and worked his way up from nothing. He has been unemployed in the past and knows as much of it as you or I. You appear to assume that because someone is now rich and in a position of economic power, he must always have been in that position. In fact you are parroting the bog-standard Socialist belief that great wealth is always and everywhere and intrinsically unearned, and that anyone who has wealth is ipso facto a member of a parasite class. I suggest you try to learn some of the most elementary facts about the man’s C.V. before you try to tar him with that brush.
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Re: About a red herring
Date: 2011-10-08 08:58 am (UTC)This is true only if you assume that ‘work’ is something that must be bestowed upon the individual by an outside power. It is, in fact, the cargo cult theory of economics.
I will have to apply for unemployment again, but if anyone tells me that it's my own fault - or the fault of any of the other translators who are similarly getting shafted - I promise I will react violently.
Cain’s point, which you seem to have missed entirely, is that it is not Wall Street’s fault. There is not a conspiracy of Evil Capitalists™ to put translators out of work.
Cain, as a member of the director class, has no right to say anything on the matter; his kind will never be unemployed and know nothing of it.
What is this ‘director class’ of which you speak? Cain is the son of a chauffeur who grew up in the Jim Crow era in Georgia, and worked his way up from nothing. He has been unemployed in the past and knows as much of it as you or I. You appear to assume that because someone is now rich and in a position of economic power, he must always have been in that position. In fact you are parroting the bog-standard Socialist belief that great wealth is always and everywhere and intrinsically unearned, and that anyone who has wealth is ipso facto a member of a parasite class. I suggest you try to learn some of the most elementary facts about the man’s C.V. before you try to tar him with that brush.