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Wage Slavery Is On The March

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percent for permission to further enrich the already obscenely rich.

 

I won't bore you with statistics which can be manipulated to support any

 

argument. Rather let me appeal to your common sense. One would think that

 

with the advancement of technology replacing the need for labor, with huge

 

increases in productivity, it would mean that the time and effort one must

 

sacrifice to meet one's needs would be lessened markedly. I grew up in the

 

Great Depression during which my father, as the lone wage earner,

 

supported a family of four on $25 a week working for the WPA. This would

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