Scene and heard

When I worked the Saturday of the big Dress Rehearsal at The Exchange (see below), as a professional, I didn’t expect to be paid. But I can’t help but be irritated by the modern reality of the Professional worker. I didn’t work the following Monday – it was Yom Kippur. I had to give up a personal day for that. So like most people, I had a 2 day weekend, but I finished it with one less day to take another time.

My take on this? Until the 1920’s, workers had very few rights and benefits and worked much longer hours for lower pay. The unions greatly improved the plight of employees in just about every way. And then they lost sight of their mandate, stepped considerably too far and lost the support of many whom they were supposed to represent. They lost power and the employers regained it. We now work longer hours for less real pay. We give, they take. We need unions to go back to basics and help us take back. They have to regain the hearts and minds of those they lost sight of when hunger for power blinded them. If I give you Saturday, then you give me Monday or money.

And still, many insist that trickle down economics work!!!! We give more to the rich and they will give more to us? It didn’t work until the 1920’s and it isn’t working now. Money is as much of a drug as Heroin. Like Heroin, it removes proper values from its addicts. They must have more. Trickle down economics isn’t economics at all. It is just dressed up as such in an attempt to legitimise the true fact that those who make and lobby for these rules are greedy fuckers who aren’t satisfied with a mere 80% of the pie. And they do it in such a way that large numbers of those who they supposedly represent, believe the rhetoric and support them; too blind to realise that they are being screwed along with the rest of us.