{"id":18191,"date":"2014-09-16T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18191"},"modified":"2014-09-16T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:13:49","slug":"us-corporate-executives-to-workers-drop-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/16\/us-corporate-executives-to-workers-drop-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"US Corporate Executives to Workers: Drop Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another good one from <em>Naked Capitalism<\/em>, <a title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/09\/us-corporate-executives-workers-drop-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\">US Corporate Executives to Workers: Drop Dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, Porter appears to have characterized the problem accurately when he depicts the attitude of these self-serving executives as a looting of the commons of labor, meaning much of America. And the precursor of the early industrial period show that this can be a sustainable strategy until workers finally rebel. The Bolshevik revolution, which was actually a peasant revolt, was more than a century after the enclosure movement began its successful program to turn independent yeoman farmers into desperate factory wage-slaves. So while history suggests that capitalists will push workers beyond their breaking point, that rupture can be a very long time in coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe that means that I can continue to profit from the looting for rest of my life.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a load off my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another good one from Naked Capitalism, US Corporate Executives to Workers: Drop Dead. Unfortunately, Porter appears to have characterized the problem accurately when he depicts the attitude of these self-serving executives as a looting of the commons of labor, meaning much of America. And the precursor of the early industrial period show that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18192,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions\/18192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}