Workers On The Line Are The REAL WEALTH CREATORS.

[TheMastersNemesis]

On this Labor Day holiday we must change the meme about who the REAL WEALTH CREATORS are. It is not these damned billionaire and multibillionaires for Christ's sake. It is all the workers toiling in the dungeons of the capitalist economy who create that wealth in the first place. And without these workers there would be no billionaires or multimillionaires. Most of these so called wealth creators have been able to exploit wooers and the system.

The Kochs themselves did not go out and extract out the resources or buy the commodities that made them such wealth assholes. The managers and overseers of businesses did not create the income of their businesses it was the workers who made the products, assembled the hamburgers and ran the place and helped other customers who did that.

The rhetoric is all ass backwards on who creates the wealth. If all the workers just quit doing anything the CEO's and managers would be SOL. Denying the ability of workers to negotiate their conditions of work or even strike if need be makes them prisoners. Nothing is more graphic about this imbalance than the move "Metropolis". It is exactly right on and what that movie shows is where we are today with labor. The one flaw is the ending that shows management getting it. The real truth is that our justice system has become the enforcer of the new enslavement of workers.

So when some conservatives asshole says the wealthy create the wealth. Say BULLSHIT.

[PatrickforO]

1. K & R! X 1,000

There can be no profit without workers.

[Populist_Prole]

2. True, and

Solvent workers to provide demand, which requires more production, further creating employment and stoking yet more demand.

As it is, we've been in a reverse snowball-effect since the 80s.

[lonestarnot]

3. I smell big bullshit!

BULLSHIT PigliCONs.

[Hydra]

4. There's a reason they try so hard to float that meme

Along with "Job creators." They want a free ride, and worship from us on top of that.

They must be empty people inside to want that.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Here are a couple of quotes from Abe Lincoln on the subject of labor, capital and wealth.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

"And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume IV, "Speech at Hartford, Connecticut" (March 5, 1860), p. 7.

"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume IV, "Speech at New Haven, Connecticut" (March 6, 1860), p. 24.

"And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that [all] such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, "Fragments of a Tariff Discussion" (December 1, 1847), p. 412.

http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln97.html

[CTyankee]

6. It's Karl Marx's theory of labor where a finished product has the value of labor

materialized in it. Classic Marx.

[hfojvt]

7. this post caused me to go on a search

looking for my own post of "it's a wonderful life"

I have always loved his little rant to Potter about the "rabble" who do most of the "working and paying and living and dying" in this community.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=162723

but before I found that, I also found this thread, and was sort of blown away by the DU of the distant past. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1989989#1994511