My Labor Day discovery

 I came across this a day or two ago and saved it for today. The parallelism between labor and management as democrats and republicans is frustrating, to say the best. Perhaps artisanal coops are the way to a sustainable future, especially if they encourage more tolerance among all of us'ns.

The Artisanal Economies Project

my very own artisanal sourdough bread

Photo by J. Harrington

If “it” requires large corporations to produce, we probably don’t need it and don’t actually benefit from “it”. Here’s my examples from Slashdot as of but moments ago.

LG is Bringing NFTs To Its Smart TVs

Islamic State Turns To NFTs To Spread Terror Message

As Popeye used to say “That’s all I can stands, ‘cuz I can’t stands no more.”

Have a Happy Labor Day and Illegitimi non carborundum. Remember corporations are only legal persons, not real people. That makes them subhuman.

 

Labor Day

By Rodney Koeneke

So I say to my friend at the day job

“We are bored sometimes, and scented like realtors

but if everyone’s equally disconsolate

under labor’s gooey caul

then nuance can be stitched more vividly

to secrets lodged inside of everyone

until it becomes your own country

with highways that carry you silently past the jetty

which, from their heavy drinking, the case managers come out to

failing to be stable and badly attempting to sing”

We’re pushing our barques past the mansions

as I say this, near the dwellings of persons

whose lives have no mooring

outside the slow fact of our passing—

huddled arrogantly under their air-conditioning

they want us to be users

moved by advertisers

enticing the constituency

to join them and sit there and weep

But we’re too busy pulling

toward centers where workers assemble.

While time for them is a melody

played at long intervals across condominiums

we who are the power

know our systems so much better

now come to this hour outside it

now give it new form on guitar 

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