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Deacon Art's avatar

Those signs of segregation posted long ago, have never truly been torn down.

They audaciously remain, but can only be seen by those with honest vision.

They will only be torn down when Peace and Justice embrace.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Amen.

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Dave Walker's avatar

Workers are exploited more successfully in some states or regions than others (and those patterns are more than coincidence), but it's our basic economic model nationally. Corporations are not operating to maximize social benefit in any sense other than the preservation and concentration of wealth. It will take sustained, concentrated, collective political effort to change that even a little.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Well, that's true, and then when the game is played even more against workers, you get the Southern economic development plan.

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Rich Colbert's avatar

Having spent time in South Carolina I can personally attest to the low wages paid there. Low wages, poor benefits (if any), high rent costs, high grocery costs and many hidden taxes are not the recipe for success! In the land of slavery many still wish labor was free!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

We didn't just get here. The system is working precisely as it's meant to.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That great question. If you’re only focus is the bottom line, workers mean no more than a wrench or a mop.

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Cynthia Fridlich's avatar

Yyp

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

A very funny thing, though, is that if your temporal framing reached through a few tomorrows, you will value and want to retain workers even if you're totally venal: it is costly to seek new employees and to train and incorporate them.

Part of the Reagan revolution was making people first feel smart for, then unconscious of, taking the perspective of human fruit flies. Focus on quarterly statements is even worse for bulwarking and fostering this than fixation on annual reports was.

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