I will say it here too. I can understand the rage and fighting post 'roaring 1920's' with unions gaining prominence through blood/sweat/ and joining. I don't understand why that same action isn't happening again. Is it the old adage of "Fool me twice, shame on me"?
The author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline would argue that property destruction is justified when it doesn't harm people and/or helps reduce harm to people. Making Kimberly-Clark a target for property destruction is a good way to scare off shareholders and gain leverage for workers.
THAT SAID, as you've pointed out here, economic violence is still violence, but I think the only violence worth noting in this class war is violence against the working class. This warehouse fire will mean many warehouse workers will probably take a financial hit, resulting in a negative radical flank effect, unfortunately. Without a robust plan for mutual aid ahead of time for those affected, this exact approach to property destruction is unwise. But throwing out all property destruction as inadvisable misses the real historical impacts property destruction had on achieving civil rights wins.
Dear Quasim, I have long been aware of this issue. Trickle-down economics has never worked and never will. I am in England and it’s the same here. Tax breaks for the rich, donors to politicians influencing decisions and we are just butterflies to be broken on the wheel. But when we do break and are too sick to work, they want nothing to do with us. We still have the NHS, thank goodness, but it is becoming more difficult to access timely care and waiting lists run into years rather than months, unless you can afford to pay for private care. Thank you as always. I will pray that people wake up and realise this is not normal. In hunter-gatherer social groups, people looked after those who couldn’t look after themselves. Now that is seen as soft, woke and not nearly tough enough for a system based on hierarchy, destruction, extraction and exploitation.
I’ve always said that Greed is another grotesque iteration of violence. I’m shocked that we haven’t seen more violence. This could be the beginning. Every empire. Every empire that has fallen, was due to avarice greed, corruption & hubris by way of military expansionism. Brace for impact folx.
Burn it. I don’t condemn the resistance. Not when war lords are making billions and investing them in harm against people both in the US and across the world, not when pedos run the country and are getting rich off the backs of the poor while kidnapping and raping our baby girls. Burn it to the fucking ground and hail him a hero. You say you don’t condone? I do. If everything else you say is true, and I’m with you on that (except the “67K” may be an economists estimation but it’s still too low), but showing any condemnation for a man who did what most of us should do to hold billionaires accountable and don’t? I’m not mad at what he did. When does the world wake up?
Excellent article young man. I would like to upgrade but I live on my social security which is pretty measly. But your writing gives me pleasure. I think we need a whole army of Luigi’s as men such as this who said if you had just paid us a living wage. The disparity is worse then the French Revolution!
We’re baring witness to the failures of capitalism along with what happens when a focus on individual needs, wants, and rights are deemed more important than the needs and rights of everyone.
What is disheartening to me is the fact that the US didn’t get this way in a year. This didn’t happen when Trump was in office the first time. This has been an ongoing issue for decades that has only gotten worse.
The Democrats are going to win big come the midterms. It will be telling to see what happens when they step into office.
Agreed that it is impossible to condone the destruction of an entire warehouse, and agreed that it absolutely could have been avoided if the rich weren't mentally-ill hoarders.
Herbert Hoover tried "trickle down economics" and Will Rogers called him on it. As Rogers said, "wealth trickles up. Give it to the poor man and the rich man will have it by the end of the day, but at least the poor man will have gotten some use out of it." The quote may not be exact, but that's the gist of it. It was true then and it is as true today. Make that more so today.
I hate greedy ass people. When you treat people like this some get violent because greedy people treat them like animals so what do you expect? You get what you pay for!
I will say it here too. I can understand the rage and fighting post 'roaring 1920's' with unions gaining prominence through blood/sweat/ and joining. I don't understand why that same action isn't happening again. Is it the old adage of "Fool me twice, shame on me"?
The author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline would argue that property destruction is justified when it doesn't harm people and/or helps reduce harm to people. Making Kimberly-Clark a target for property destruction is a good way to scare off shareholders and gain leverage for workers.
THAT SAID, as you've pointed out here, economic violence is still violence, but I think the only violence worth noting in this class war is violence against the working class. This warehouse fire will mean many warehouse workers will probably take a financial hit, resulting in a negative radical flank effect, unfortunately. Without a robust plan for mutual aid ahead of time for those affected, this exact approach to property destruction is unwise. But throwing out all property destruction as inadvisable misses the real historical impacts property destruction had on achieving civil rights wins.
Dear Quasim, I have long been aware of this issue. Trickle-down economics has never worked and never will. I am in England and it’s the same here. Tax breaks for the rich, donors to politicians influencing decisions and we are just butterflies to be broken on the wheel. But when we do break and are too sick to work, they want nothing to do with us. We still have the NHS, thank goodness, but it is becoming more difficult to access timely care and waiting lists run into years rather than months, unless you can afford to pay for private care. Thank you as always. I will pray that people wake up and realise this is not normal. In hunter-gatherer social groups, people looked after those who couldn’t look after themselves. Now that is seen as soft, woke and not nearly tough enough for a system based on hierarchy, destruction, extraction and exploitation.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis -- Supreme Court Justice
I’ve always said that Greed is another grotesque iteration of violence. I’m shocked that we haven’t seen more violence. This could be the beginning. Every empire. Every empire that has fallen, was due to avarice greed, corruption & hubris by way of military expansionism. Brace for impact folx.
Burn it. I don’t condemn the resistance. Not when war lords are making billions and investing them in harm against people both in the US and across the world, not when pedos run the country and are getting rich off the backs of the poor while kidnapping and raping our baby girls. Burn it to the fucking ground and hail him a hero. You say you don’t condone? I do. If everything else you say is true, and I’m with you on that (except the “67K” may be an economists estimation but it’s still too low), but showing any condemnation for a man who did what most of us should do to hold billionaires accountable and don’t? I’m not mad at what he did. When does the world wake up?
"All you had to do was pay us enough to live." All a heroin addict has to do is avoid the needle.
Excellent article young man. I would like to upgrade but I live on my social security which is pretty measly. But your writing gives me pleasure. I think we need a whole army of Luigi’s as men such as this who said if you had just paid us a living wage. The disparity is worse then the French Revolution!
Beautifully written, Qasim!
We’re baring witness to the failures of capitalism along with what happens when a focus on individual needs, wants, and rights are deemed more important than the needs and rights of everyone.
What is disheartening to me is the fact that the US didn’t get this way in a year. This didn’t happen when Trump was in office the first time. This has been an ongoing issue for decades that has only gotten worse.
The Democrats are going to win big come the midterms. It will be telling to see what happens when they step into office.
Thank you, Mary. And well articulated.
When pressure builds long enough, the release never looks rational from the outside, but it was always being priced in somewhere beneath the surface.
You can ignore the imbalance for years, but eventually it stops being a statistic and turns into an event.
Wild how destroying $750M in inventory is treated as the shocking part… but paying workers $20–30K below survival is just “the market working.”
At some point it stops being a crime story and starts looking like a receipt.
Exactly. The double standards are astounding.
Agreed that it is impossible to condone the destruction of an entire warehouse, and agreed that it absolutely could have been avoided if the rich weren't mentally-ill hoarders.
Herbert Hoover tried "trickle down economics" and Will Rogers called him on it. As Rogers said, "wealth trickles up. Give it to the poor man and the rich man will have it by the end of the day, but at least the poor man will have gotten some use out of it." The quote may not be exact, but that's the gist of it. It was true then and it is as true today. Make that more so today.
I hate greedy ass people. When you treat people like this some get violent because greedy people treat them like animals so what do you expect? You get what you pay for!
I stand with him. I don’t blame him a bit!
While I do agree that arson is a horrible thing to do, I also agree that employees should be treated fairly.