Santa Claus is portrayed as a paternal manifestation of the
welfare state which will benevolently give gifts to all without regard.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality the biggest gift
getters are corporate executives, getting both outright grants and tax
breaks while their employees are lucky to get a lump of coal. Instead,
most people will be shopping at these big chain stores, which
make tremendous profit by preferential and illegal exclusionary deals.
These stores are supposedly operating in a free market but it's anything
but that. Further, the volume of their transactions means that within
their organizations, they are a virtual command economy, a totalitarian
top-down structure with no democratic input from their workers.
At
this time of increasing sales volume, many are staffed by temporary
workers, who have no benefits or health insurance and can't afford
to get sick. And there's not going to be a good-hearted Scrooge to
pay for your operation like he did for Tiny Tim. God bless us, every one.
We'll need it.
From here. Merry Christmas, everybody!
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