By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:03 +0000

Good points, Jane, especially about state colleges these days being the taxpayer-and-student supported training ground to work in corporate America, which many young people I’ve talked to resent. Worse is post-graduation when the new hires realize they have a short shelf-life as, increasingly, tech and lower-level management jobs are being sent overseas. They come in and design the system, work out the bugs, then are forced to train someone overseas who is earning half (or less) of what they are being paid in how to run it. Within five years, and often less time than that, they are out of a job. I can’t tell you how pissed off these kids are at being treated this way. I know many of them are out in the streets with OWS but many more support the OWS revolution behind the scenes in various ways. Fortunately, I think we are in the midst of a revolution that will have just as much of an impact on our broken ‘crapitalist’ system as the protests of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s had on civil rights, women’s rights, and ending the Vietnam War and the draft. My rough guess is for every one OWS protestor in the streets there are at least a hundred at home cheering them on. I’ll take those odds over the elite 1 Percent represented by Fox News, Wall Street, Mike Bloomberg and ‘get a job’ Newtie. The wealthy and corporations are abput to learn a lesson in evolution; it’s not that the strongest survive, as they mistakenly believe; it’s really adapt or die off, and most of them have been terrible at adapting to new circumstances in the past.

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By: RS Janes