Kamala's "to-do" list addition

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. I'm sick to death of gradualism.

No offense intended, KS Toronado, but $15/hr minimum wage was an effective attention-getter for Bernie in the late 90s. And there's still resistance from vulture capitalists and their lackeys like Joe Manchin whose fortune sits on the backs of underpaid workers. Prices of basic living essentials have risen about 100% in the meantime. A living wage demand would scare the living shit out of investment fund operators and corporate boards, and rightly so. We need to force corporations and oligarchs to understand the concept of "enough." How many workers must starve and die to make one billionaire? Profit accruing to the wealthy needs to decrease if we're going to have anything near to economic justice, which is probably impossible in such a pro-big-capitalist system. But one can try. Make big demands loudly, then expect that they'll get whittled down.

We also don't stress enough that workers aren't "given" jobs by some imaginary "benevolent capitalist CREATING jobs." Workers SELL THEIR LABOR in a marketplace that's enormously weighted to the advantage of the employers who buy it, so that those employers may profit from their work. The avenue for change in the past has been labor unions, but only about 10% of workers belong to them, less among the lowest-paid workers. Capitalists and their political surrogates have been attacking unions from day one, but especially since the 1950s, when workers started using strikes and other tactics to make real gains. Long past time this whole scenario gets stood on its head.