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The government
These days, it seems like most western countries have an administration more than a government. Billionaires, the local royals and stockholders call the important shots, then the administration enacts whatever ‘governance’ they decide on to get the rest of us in line so they can administrate our labour and energy. They govern our lives in detail, but let the string-pullers do whatever they want.
We’re the ‘workforce’, not the ‘citizenry’.
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We’re the ‘workforce’, not the ‘citizenry’.
We were the government’s ‘subjects’ according to Rees Mogg the other day, the jumped-up cunt...
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Not sure it was always otherwise, wars or work. With periods of improvement. NHS, unions, etc...
It certainly has become much more extreme since the rot set in with neoliberalism and global money doing whatever.
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We're peasants.
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Remove maternity pay, make parents take time off unpaid - cheaper for companies.
Likewise holiday entitlement, sick-leave, pensions.
Remove welfare provisions - you can lower corporation tax - cheaper for companies.
The government want to get to an even more extreme version of the US system, where the unemployed will (literally) be starved into working in the fields during summer, gutting fish in the winter etc rather than be paid by the state.
Have a look at the IEA suggestions for Brexit Britain - it's goal is to reduce the state to a stub, with everything run by private companies for profit, with close to zero regulation of anything.