Wage Slaves

So I just read this article on CNN.com about this millionaire couple who kept to Indonesian women pretty much as slaves. They allegedly tortured them and forced them to work 18 hour days all for minimal pay and insufficient food. The couple is claiming that the two women are making all these horrible stories up, which if you read the accusations may very well be true since they are pretty crazy. However, I would prefer to interpret this as a warning sign to America's poor. The rich are out to enslave you! If you are poor, hopefully you already knew this. The rich have been exploiting the poor since the dawn of history. This however, is suppossed to be modern times, where every man is equal in the eyes of the law. The rich don't see it this way though. Just think about it, if you were rich and saw all these poor people scrambling just to get a few crumbs from your pocket, I would probably see them as slaves as well. "Wage slaves." Sure they get paid, but what kind of existence is it where your entire livelyhood depends on a rich person's leisure and how much money he feels like giving you on a particular day. Fuck that. That's why working for rich people is bullshit. I don't trust them at all. Subjecting myself to wage slavery is humiliating and pathetic. After living in a community of rich people, I've discovered that they are the same as everyone else, except in their own minds. Their power over regular people is false. Money can only buy you so much. They think their money can buy them safety and security? Ha! Maybe I should just get a gang of surly poor together and go on a violent crime wave targeting the super rich. Fuck 'em!

Hmmm...I think perhaps I have consumed too much coffee this morning. I'm feeling more irritable than normal and this blog has transformed from an informative news blurb into a violent call to arms. I better stop now.