Get whats yours!!!
Financial indicators do not put food into people’s stomachs. They fill hangars with private jets. I’ve listened and read countless economists speculate about the countries economy. I’ve read and heard about how the strength of the rand is both good and bad for the economy. I’ve also read of how the political situation effects the strength of the economy and hence the rand. I’ve heard many times how strikes are bad for the economy and how much they cost the economy per day and how this will chase a way investors.
This got me thinking. How direct is the relationship between the economy and the pocket of the man on the street? Who suffers most when the economy isn’t performing? Who benefits the most from these precious “foreign” investors which need to be constantly pleased like spoilt toddlers?
You have to bear with me on this one. I am not an economist. I don’t have all the figures, graphs and formulas. All I am offering is an opinion. In fact, most people may even think this article is rather ignorant. But please, hear me out.
Foreign investors are usually very rich people from out of the country with more money than they know what to do with. No, I’m lying. Its usually very big multinational corporations. What bugs me is that we live in a full blown capitalist world where nothing is free. No one does anyone a favour just for fun. Its tit for tat. Big multinationals don’t invest to help out your 3rd world economy. They invest to make profits. Very, very big profits. In the same way. A labourer’s first instinct s to get paid. Not to make sure the boss is happy. This makes the need for strikes necessary as both parties want the biggest slice of the cake. On this basis, how can the strike be bad for the economy? Investors are foreign and labourers are citizens. The more the labourers get paid the more money remains in the country to feed the local economy rather than the money being taken away by the precious investors.
There. I said it. Strikes are good for the economy. I know most of you are probably saying “HOW DARE HE!”. This is because it is true that strikes do affect the economy badly. Terribly to be exact. But that’s just because the system is configured all wrong. This is because the capitalist system isn’t geared to benefit the man on the street. Its there to exploit him. And you fools are brainwashed into supporting those that oppress you. How ridiculous is it that that you work all year and get a shitty bonus while the white people in suits who’s hardest task was picking the location of his families annual vacation gets an exorbitant dividend payout but couldn’t give you an above inflation salary increase?
I’m tired of hearing about how great the economy is doing, how strong the rand is and how SA is now 2nd world but I’m approached by a beggar at every intersection. Financial indicators are there to show your ever so precious foreign investors which country is easier to exploit. They have nothing to do with how well the country is doing. For as long as there is cheap labour, they will be there. I say strike on shamelessly my brothers sand sisters. The world is yours. If you want something. Take it. Don’t you dare let them fool you into thinking you are lazy and just looking for handouts. You must get what’s due to you. Financial indicators do not, let me repeat; will not put food in your stomach. Financial indicators fill hangars with private jets. TRUE STORY!!!
Financial indicators do not put food into people’s stomachs. They fill hangars with private jets. I’ve listened and read countless economists speculate about the countries economy. I’ve read and heard about how the strength of the rand is both good and bad for the economy. I’ve also read of how the political situation effects the strength of the economy and hence the rand. I’ve heard many times how strikes are bad for the economy and how much they cost the economy per day and how this will chase a way investors.
This got me thinking. How direct is the relationship between the economy and the pocket of the man on the street? Who suffers most when the economy isn’t performing? Who benefits the most from these precious “foreign” investors which need to be constantly pleased like spoilt toddlers?
You have to bear with me on this one. I am not an economist. I don’t have all the figures, graphs and formulas. All I am offering is an opinion. In fact, most people may even think this article is rather ignorant. But please, hear me out.
Foreign investors are usually very rich people from out of the country with more money than they know what to do with. No, I’m lying. Its usually very big multinational corporations. What bugs me is that we live in a full blown capitalist world where nothing is free. No one does anyone a favour just for fun. Its tit for tat. Big multinationals don’t invest to help out your 3rd world economy. They invest to make profits. Very, very big profits. In the same way. A labourer’s first instinct s to get paid. Not to make sure the boss is happy. This makes the need for strikes necessary as both parties want the biggest slice of the cake. On this basis, how can the strike be bad for the economy? Investors are foreign and labourers are citizens. The more the labourers get paid the more money remains in the country to feed the local economy rather than the money being taken away by the precious investors.
There. I said it. Strikes are good for the economy. I know most of you are probably saying “HOW DARE HE!”. This is because it is true that strikes do affect the economy badly. Terribly to be exact. But that’s just because the system is configured all wrong. This is because the capitalist system isn’t geared to benefit the man on the street. Its there to exploit him. And you fools are brainwashed into supporting those that oppress you. How ridiculous is it that that you work all year and get a shitty bonus while the white people in suits who’s hardest task was picking the location of his families annual vacation gets an exorbitant dividend payout but couldn’t give you an above inflation salary increase?
I’m tired of hearing about how great the economy is doing, how strong the rand is and how SA is now 2nd world but I’m approached by a beggar at every intersection. Financial indicators are there to show your ever so precious foreign investors which country is easier to exploit. They have nothing to do with how well the country is doing. For as long as there is cheap labour, they will be there. I say strike on shamelessly my brothers sand sisters. The world is yours. If you want something. Take it. Don’t you dare let them fool you into thinking you are lazy and just looking for handouts. You must get what’s due to you. Financial indicators do not, let me repeat; will not put food in your stomach. Financial indicators fill hangars with private jets. TRUE STORY!!!