Anti-Capitalist Rantings
29 01 2008Can anyone please explain to me why when you are freelance artist/independent worker, or even if part of your revenue is generated by regular income (from say a school), you always get your payment from 1 to 3 months (too) late? I just got my cheque in the mail from this musician (whose name I will omit here) with a New Year’s card and an excuse note, 5 months behind schedule! But when it comes to getting equipment for ourselves, or looking for payment solutions in say installments, or paying outstanding taxes, we don’t get any breaks!!
This is of course only one of the myriad ways we are victims of this “market economy” where it is always easier for people with capital to exert power over those who have no means of reclaiming their fair share. People with capital include institutions like schools (yes, teachers are exploited and students scammed and this is how schools squeeze a profit), the IRS, stores like Apple who uses different videoprojector cables for each laptop that they create, and each cable costs the obscene amount of 37 euros…
This is why I am so passionate about open source, free knowledge, pirated software, the universal plug, and legal means of finding loopholes in the tax system (ok you need an accounting degree for that 
). I’d also like to hack into a G5!! 
I am reading a photocopied version of Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I got it in India for 20 roupees only to realize that it was in fact entirely photocopied, complete with the “original” covers. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie, the book covers a lot of terrain in positive thinking and auto-suggestions. If it sounds like you’ve already read it, it’s because all the modern motivational literature (Anthony Robbins and whatnot) plagiarized from this book…
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Currently reading : Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller–Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century By Napoleon Hill Release date: 18 August, 2005 |
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