Reply #49: "No longer working for the weekend..." Excellent characterization.

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I'm going to stary using that. I wish I could pay you a royalty!

Yes, if you don't have the money to make choices and you don't have the discretionary income to spend the way you chose to (rather than they way you have to), you have less cultural and political power.

It's not just that you can't donate money to politicians, which some people might think of as the measure of middle class political power. It's that you can't really do much of anything. You're right -- you can't educate yourself. And then you're decreasing powers are actually going to increasing someone else's power.

You're a wageslave and you're indebt to banks so that you can lower your employer's wage costs, and increase your banks profits, which keeps increasing their power, which they then wield against you.

The banks impoverish the rest of the globe holding down wages so so you have to compete with labor at rates that are 1/5th yours. Your employer donates money to Republicans.

It's just so much bullshit.

We have got to get economic power back down to the people before we can have any kind of democracy.