The Greatest Generation: Labor, Capital And Betrayal Of The Social Contract

 

It will be a cold day in Hell when contemporary Republicans launch an email chain featuring Lincoln's view of "labor" and "capital."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/abraham-lincoln-on-relationship-between.html

Alan: The Greatest Generation - including my Dad and his friends - believed that economic progress was a shared enterprise between Labor and Capital and that wealth, as night follows day, would be shared equitably as Labor built an economy whose productive mechanisms were increasingly automatic. 

"Automation, Robotization, Software-Enhanced Productivity And Permanent Job Loss"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/automation-robotization-and-job-loss.html

Instead, Capital jettisoned Labor as soon as productive mechanisms became sufficiently automated that labor (in the traditional blue collar sense) was no longer necessary. 

This betrayal of the self-evident Social Contract subscribed by American Labor throughout the process of industrialization -- and into the beginning of post-industrialism -- reveals the essential deception, treachery and turncoat vility of The 5%. 

"Plutocracy Triumphant"

Cartoon Compendium

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/plutocracy-triumphant.html

"The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie. They're Taking It All"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-rich-arent-just-grabbing-bigger.html

"Inside Job"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/daily-dose-october-152011.html

"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html