A note of appreciation from the rich
By Author Unknown
21/09/08 "ICH'
-- - Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.
On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave
away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because
you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class.
Let's face it -- you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!
As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing,
connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become
one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the
yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you.
That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to
believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal
opportunity" in America.
Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's
never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's
already occupied by us -- and we like it up here so much that we
intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone
lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick
in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily
find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer
and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes,
and homeless street people.
Always remember that if everyone like you were economically
secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one
left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our
economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow
orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly
no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full
and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive
to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even
though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're
also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and
others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through
life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified
what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of
the mold."
Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it
suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged,
unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male
against female, American workers against Japanese against
Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by
invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand,"
"national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw
you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or
jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from
the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to
participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better
known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't
a clue as to what's really happening -- instead, you blame
"Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "Niggers," "Jews,"
Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled
situation.
We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work
ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the
environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and
basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We
obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you
do!
Of course, life could be different. Society could be
intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general
population. You and others like you could collectively fight to
free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In
fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is
possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant
achievement of our system -- robbing you of your imagination,
your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.
So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless
hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury;
your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing
your place" -- without even knowing it!
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