This is a part two of a similar question asked here: https://slrpnk.net/post/24228904
Basically I am workshopping progressive sligans. I am a basic agitator and interact with a lot of people who lean progressive but aren’t politically engaged yet. Crowd-sourcing the revolution, I guess.
A good case study is the billionaire family that owns in n out. They pay staff fairly well and sell their product at fairly reasonable prices. And still they are billionaires. The point that no rich person will ever understand is that we can provide for society handsomely and they will STILL BE FUCKING RICH. they will still have more money than everyone else, and we will still work at the jobs we have now. There is no need for poverty to exist except for the fact that some people think it’s awesome and perpetuate it. Misery and destitution can be cut by like 85% but no, the ownership class enjoys watching it.
But they could afford to buy beef from better sources. They could afford for their employees to have a career instead of a job. They could do that and still cost less than McDonalds. Yeah they’re alright compared to the big corporations but they are not improving the world - they are extracting profit from it.
Another great example is Quik Trip, a convenience store chain. I could go on and on, but if you know you know. Nowhere else holds a candle to QT and the employees make lifelong careers from working there. No shit.
Did early Y2K updates for them in 98, because they were ahead of the curve. Had touch screen POS terminals, in 1998. Even had in-house IT who wrote their custom software. Imagine that! Some of the clerks told me their monthly bonus was often more than their paycheck.
You won’t see someone being trained in the store. Hell no, that’s a six-week class, because they invest in their people.
Went to a couple of stores in East KC. They didn’t hire rent-a-cops, they paid actual cops to stand in the store. No fucking around.
Story goes that the owner said, “I got rich and it’s payback time.” Wildly successful outfit.
Anyway, I could have had a career with their IT but I let a chick I met online hang out with me at Harrah’s Casino and Hotel. She ripped me off via room service and QT was stuck with the bill. Didn’t even get laid. What a life.
Well that was a plot twist
I’ve had an interesting life.