Were you forced to isolate yourself in just 1 of your 3 luxury homes or to take shelter on your yacht while working class Americans were left to spread a deadly disease through your factories and offices?
Yes, you have felt the pain of these troubled times, my friend.
We know that you’ve suffered. At one point many of you thought you may have sell a summer retreat or winter cottage. Some of you knew the desperation of thinking about parting with one of the priceless automobiles in your vintage collection.
But you persevered. Your ingenuity paid off and you made sacrifices and saved the lives of thousands of workers by sending them home, without pay.
It was the right thing to do. After all, well meaning, but overly idealistic lawmakers would step in and help ease their burdens with enhanced unemployment benefits, stimulus payments and tax rebates. These same lawmakers knew how much you had sacrificed, and to stave off the cold made certain that your plight was recognized and you could receive a few subsistence millions in 100% forgivable loans.
But that’s when things got worse. That is when the so called “working class” began to display unrealistic expectations, and demand wholly unfair concessions in the workplaces that you and your peers have so graciously provided for generations.
After receiving unemployment payments sometime as much as 2-times what they were once paid, and benefitting from policies that prevented them from becoming homeless or suffering from starvation, they have refused to return to the subsistence living that corporate America has always so generously provided.
These workers now demand unrealistic “living wages.” They decry the benevolent working schedules they have known and provoke one another with high and mighty invocations of family medical leave, parental child care benefits, and so called “fair” vacation and leave requirements. Some of these have so much malice in them they demand such benefits as fair retirement or stock options granting them an ownership stake in the very company you inherited fairly.
This tragic pandemic crisis has given an entire generation of working poor the audacity to engage in the worst kind of folly — the presumption of self-worth.
But fear not! All is not lost. America remains on your side. After more than a year of giving taxpayer dollars back to tax payers through these fool hearty social engineering programs, and promising to unjustly stop treating you hard won corporate interests as profit engines, government is finally ready to concede their misjudgment.
In just 2 short weeks almost ½ of state governments will finally end this charade, months before the promised deadline.
That’s right. Now is the time for you to finally take some much needed time away. Go to a paradise Island somewhere and ride out the storm until things are back on track.
Soon, as these unwarranted and extravagant programs are rolled back, desperate so called “workers” will be banging on your door for whatever scraps you are willing to part with. Gone will be the luxurious sense of security and misguided sense of individual value these folksy laborers now enjoy, and they will come begging for your compassion.
As their false sense of financial security dissipates, eviction and mortgage protections vanish and children are once again shuffled into crowded school houses, this entitled rabble will crawl back.
So, take comfort. Sip your tropical drink slowly and calm your concerns. All is well. Soon you will have your choice of malcontented peasantry from which to select the next generation of labor. Soon this over reaching cacophony of citizenry will return to the just servitude they have known, and the benevolent yoke and power of the anonymity your corporation has given you.
There is hope. Do not despair. You will once again know the fulfillment of watching as the pool cleaner puts suntan lotion on your young third wife. You will know the joys of reading not about the plights of a disease ridden under class on the front pages, but once more of the exploits of your eldest son and his latest tryst, as it was meant to be.
Keep your head up! Remember that it’s not all of those discontented laborers that built our great nation. It’s you! Your industrialism, your vision and your determination to profit are the backbones of an ordered society.
Remember your sacrifices. You have endured the company of inventors who want take credit for developing technology that you paid for. You have weathered the boardrooms where greedy money managers thwart your ambitions at every turn, throwing around casual demands for greater returns on lesser stocks, insisting your pay be cut to a mere 10 or 12 times that of your staff.
It’s your ability to navigate these dilemmas that makes you special and America will not forget it.
Keep Calm, and those whose power you have paid for will inevitably do the right thing and you will be back on top. After all, that’s where you belong. That is where your grandfather’s money was meant to seat you. It’s your birth rite.
Yes, friend, this ordeal is nearly at an end.
