The Greatest Generation: Labor, Capital And Betrayal Of The Social Contract (Re-Publication Of An Eponymous 2014 Blog Post - With Modification)

 

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%. 

The History Of Corporations: The Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan And Elizabeth Warren Converge On Stakeholder Capitalism - "Get Back To Where You Once Belonged, America!"

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2022/03/ronald-reagan-and-elizabeth-warren.html

"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

Yes, the above quotation fact checks. 

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:92?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

Capitalism: A 2023 Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/06/capitalism-2023-compendium-of-best-pax.html

"Pope Francis Links"

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

"Most Stupid People Are Conservative"

John Stuart Mill

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/01/most-stupid-people-are-conservative.html

Full Quote: https://victorianweb.org/philosophy/mill/conservatives.html