Termyn8or
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OK, let's go there. Why do some people become succesful commercial musicians ? I mean let's really go there. Anybody with a decent amount of talent who will apply themselves to the task can make it, get into the musician's union. Not sure what they make but I imagine it is twenty or thirty bucks an hour, and it is probably not the same for all. You get a gig as backup for a good singer, who's name is the byline, not a group name, you could preform flawlessly and not have fifteen millseconds of fame. To move out of that CLASS and up into a better one, you need to get your name on the album cover. Do you think Bill Gates is the top sofware writer in the world ? Hell no. He has a mansion full of immigrants to write code working on H1B visas. They do the work and he can just sit at his desk and do whatever he damn well pleases. Why ? Because he is in a different class. I know a couple of rich people who revere him like some sort of a Messiah or something. What Gates really did was to jump a class, which is rare indeed. He started out as a punk kid with alot of ideas. His first company I know about was Traffometer, which was very simple. It failed eventually but Billy Gates did not starve to death obviously. He jumped from being a proletariat to bourgeoisie. But did he really ? Do you understand real wealth, and that there are people on this planet who can buy and sell him with pocket change ? But is that the real definition ? How much money ? I don't think so. It may take some serious capital to feel bourgeoisie but did you really make it ? Did you stop selling your time ? That is the proletarian way, to sell OUR time. That's all we got because we don't have a machine making money for us. I believe that to be the true difference, rather than a dollar amount. And real power is something that very few really have. There is a guy in China that could kill our economy with the stroke of a pen. There is a guy in Israel who can do the same. There is a guy in Germany who could wound us very badly, and as we sold our economy to the world, many such people now exist. So in a way, our whole country is one made up of proletarians. The wealth required to climb back up to bourgeoisie status will never be created in the current system. That means practical enslavement, and friends I do not assert that this is going to happen soon. I assert that it already has ! Argue all you want, but if I have to go to work tomorrow, I bet you do as well. What is this "have to" mean ? You got it baby. And how the People handle the situation is important. As Germany goes to four day work weeks, people in the US clamour for overtime, many working weekends, lots of people work, but their olady must also work to support their lifestyle, most of which is supposedly made of the finest plastic. You got a $5 million dollar home ? Think you're King shit or something ? Call me when you buy an island. A big one. Opulence is a very relative term. T
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