Before the NAZI TORTURE CAMP, and strongly and plaintively during the CAMP, I’ve been asking over and over WHERE’S THE GUILD? Where is the organized defense of humanity, or even the organized self-interested defense of occupations and businesses?
Franny continues to perform the function of a Guild, which has been lost for many decades. In this interview she digs into more of the details and numbers, but she continues to hit the BIG POINTS.
Some rough transcriptions:
We don’t want to be out of work. This is our chosen craft and livelihood. Putting people out of work is never a good thing. People need to work. People need to have purpose in their lives.
We can’t be squeezed out of making a livelihood. They should support the performers, who are the center of the wheel, and we’re the foundation upon which they built their fortune. They squeeze the last nickel out of the performers because that’s how the CEO does right by the shareholders.
Our journey is about trying to create a more refined version of our self. If we don’t practice that every day, we’re missing what this journey is about. If you go to work and your whole objective is to screw people, then you’re living on a false truth.
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She’s echoing the three classic descriptions of real civilization. Until recently these descriptions were called “impractical ideals” and “abstract morality”. Now, thanks to researchers who removed their Theory Goggles and started LOOKING ABOUT YOU, we know with certainty that these are BIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE. This is how the world is built.
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Here’s the concept expressed three ways.
First and most perfectly, in sharia law:
The Almighty has created this world as a trial and test for man; every person has therefore been made to depend on others for his living. No one in this world can live independently as regards his needs and requirements. A person of the highest rank turns to the most ordinary to fulfill them. In other words, every single person has an important role to play, without which this world cannot continue.
This role depends upon his abilities, intelligence and inclinations as well as upon his means and resources, which vary from person to person. In fact, it is because of this variation that a society comes into being. Consequently, laborers and workers, artisans and craftsmen, tillers and peasants are as indispensable as scholars and thinkers, savants and sages, leaders and rulers. Every individual is an integral component of the society and contributes to its formation according to his abilities.
By creating various classes of people, the Almighty is testing whether the big and the small, the high and the low create a society based on co-operation and respect or create disorder in the world by disregarding the role each person has been ordained to play.
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Second, in the 1977 Soviet constitution:
The state exercises control over the measure of labour and of consumption in accordance with the principle of socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his WORK. It fixes the rate of taxation on taxable income.
Socially useful work and its results determine a person’s status in society. By combining material and moral incentives and encouraging innovation and a creative attitude to work, the state helps transform labour into the prime vital need of every Soviet citizen.
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Third, in FDR’s fireside chat on Sept 6, 1936.
I have, however, used the argument in relation only to a small area — it holds good in its effect on the nation as a whole. Every state in the drought area is now doing and always will do business with every state outside it.
The very existence of the men and women working in the clothing factories of New York, making clothes worn by farmers and their families; of the workers in the steel mills in Pittsburgh, in the automobile factories of Detroit, and in the harvester factories of Illinois, depend upon the farmers’ ability to purchase the commodities they produce. In the same way it is the purchasing power of the workers in these factories in the cities that enables them and their wives and children to eat more beef, more pork, more wheat, more corn, more fruit and more dairy products, and to buy more clothing made from cotton, wool and leather. In a physical and a property sense, as well as in a spiritual sense, we are members one of another.
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