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.
Was this originally written by Karl Marx?
ReplyDeleteI get the point, but it is totally unfair to those who happen to have made themselves wealthy, and is a fabrication, not a real narrative of what corporate high-level managers have experienced in this pandemic.
In other words, wanting something you want to be true doesn't make it true.
This sounds so much like an argument for the separation of social classes and is inspiring a sense of resentment for those who just happened to be financially well-off enough to not be impacted by the pandemic.
The truth of the matter is that the benefits this writer says were not available before the pandemic have been available for years, and the unionization of businesses has been so successful in making better worker environments possible that they have, effectively, put themselves out of business because the threat of a union will force employers to give the same benefits the unionized workers receive.
What about the workers that refuse to go back to work because the government handouts give them, temporarily, more money? They are lazy and ignorant of the future, because these handouts WILL stop soon, and then instead of being able to negotiate for a good working wage they will be forced to take whatever they can get: right now, it is a buyers market for the unemployed, but when the handouts stop, and all these lazy people realize they have to go back to work, the pendulum will have swung to the employers, who will be able to get as many workers as they want as cheaply as they can because everyone will be looking for work.
The smart unemployed person will be out there now, and will be able to negotiate a deal that won't be there in the near future, when they will really need it.
This writer is just plain angry, and I suspect feels very frustrated, but it isn't the corporate world that has totally screwed up this country, it is the Democratic party which created this virus, encouraged it's growth (initially), used it to denounce one of the most effective Presidents we have had in decades, and now that they are in power, use it to continue to stifle the American economy recovery so that they can continue to force the poor and down-trodden to be dependent on their welfare, in order to sustain their control over the voters.
To the writer of this essay: if you want to know who the real enemy is, it isn't in the Board Room, it's in the White House and the Congress.