Work

The concept of hard work in the United States has been corrupted. Sitting at a desk and playing with numbers or words on a computer do not constitute hard work. A creative effort perhaps, but not hard work. Hard work entails the expenditure of real physical energy against gravity and inertia. 

Fast-aging men in Home Depot parking lots can tell you about hard work. A person in line at a day-labor agency can tell you about hard work. A homeless person pushing a shopping cart with all his possessions can tell you about hard work. Mark Zuckerberg is no expert on hard work. A Wall Street trader is no expert on hard work. Mitt Romney is no expert on hard work, nor is President Obama. 

Those who keep the lights on and repair the streets work hard. Those who maintain the yards of the wealthy for little money know hard work. Those who work in fast food restaurants to get through community college know hard work. They spend their bodies on their work for wages.

                                               

The wealthy 1% are stealing the American conscience by controlling American government and American media. They are redefining human worth and the values of human work. The new underclass of immigrant workers are living under the weight of this perversion of what it means to work hard or to be worthy of a life of ease. American citizens, born in this country, who work hard in trades once organized in unions, are losing ground. 

The bourgeoisie throughout the ages have demonized those who step forward in praise and defense of those who work hard for a decent living. Marx, Mao, Che. Now the bourgeoisie are being cannibalized by the aristocrats they emulate. Eventually those enslaved by the folly of greed and materialism awaken. That is when the hard work of tearing down social and economic inequality begins again.