A Labor Day Post: The Ingrained and Unmindful Ignorance Of Class Exceptionalism And State Privilege

There is a myth out there that within this economic system we all have some great ability to create this life of wonderment including a wonderful career that we love.   The reality is someone always has to plant and pick the food we eat.   Someone needs to mine the raw materials we use.   Someone needs to take the dirty sheets from privilege’s hotel room.   Someone needs to slave away in a factory with a few short breaks a day while spending the other eight to twelve hours sitting or standing in the same spot doing the same repetitive task over and over and over again.   Someone has to clean the toilets.   Those are the “lucky” people.    They provide class and state privilege with incredible  entitlement.    They produce the phones, the   TVs, the clothes, the electronics, the cars, the gadgets, the consumer goods, the eyewear, the furniture, the homes and on and on and on that privilege and class consumes.   There are billions of other people who aren’t so “lucky”.   They are the marginalized who live in the world’s ghettos and shanty towns.   Those who have no voice because it is drowned out by the violence of the state and its concepts of hierarchy, class and privilege.    The reality is most humans, including the people who serve class and hierarchy, consume very little.   Very, very little.    They exist to serve people of privilege.