I have many anarchist leanings, but to live 100% by the invisible hand is to die by it. It makes me want to puke every time I hear ACers claim that people willingly enter into these work contracts with crummy employers, as if they honestly had a choice in the matter. I've had a string of horrendous jobs since I graduated a year and a half ago, each one keeping me just above poverty level. I didn't work 50 hours a week with no overtime pay, killing weeds, for any reason other than I don't want to starve and I need a place to sleep. And Chomsky's example of the potentate and starving subject is heaps less hyperbolic and false analogous to the real world than the specter of Big Brother's laced-up-high-and-tight jackboots crushing down on the necks of his subjects, tyrannically robbing them blind and enslaving them.
Every time you guys talk about the jackboots and tyranny of government I'll shoot back with some crap about the invisible hand pounding me with it's mace. I have more of a claim to being oppressed (although I don't claim it) because I have to eat peanut butter everynight for dinner to make rent. Only well-off snobs would consider the work contracts I've signed to have been completely free.
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