Software as a profession sucks, a rant.

[Jack]

No issue with your arguments.
The difference in the two is, IMHO, the difference in a knowledge worker
and a 'mechanical' worker.  Yes, there does seem to be some social
status that comes with white collar over blue collar work, but from what
I have seen, they are both wage slaves.

Even 'independant business persons' are wage
slaves to their customers.  Anytime someone has
power over you in any manner, makes one of them
subservient.

There is a reason why the only 'sovern' is a government.
They have the power to tax and control those under them.
Even the 'companies'/businesses are all under someone
elses domination/control as much as individuals that
work for them are in their control.

I found an unbelievable amount of feeling of being free
just by paying off my mortgage.  A little piece of freedom
from having to pay someone else for the right to live
in 'my house'.  Then the tax bill comes, and I still have
to pay someone else to use what I 'own'.

I need to switch to another topic, my blood pressure is going up again.

><> ... Jack



On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:08 -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
>> In case anyone
>> hasn't noticed, we've gone from white collar to blue collar in just over
>> a decade and a half.
>
> No matter how creative the job is, the matter the color of the collar,
> your working class, even computer programming.
>
> Americans are so funny with their daft definition of what it means to be
> middle class. You don't get such an honour by simply holding a certain
> kind of none labouring job.
>
> No, you need a certain kind of economic freedom, owning your own
> business, collecting vast rents on property (any kind, real of
> imagined), You can sneak in by owning your own home I guess, but it'd
> have to be outright.
>
> After all the only reason the people you work for are able to get away
> with pressuring you like they are, is because you don't have the liberty
> to go elsewhere if your complaints are heard.
>
> Until you've got the freedom to quit your job, your just as much of an
> economic slave as a coal miner or steel worker.
>
> Socially Yours, Martin
>
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