Freedom is just another word ... Hunt and peck is coming for all of us, as a way of life. As a way of making a living, anyway. We're moving from table scraps to chicken feed, as part of the 'shareholder' economy because Republicans have willed it.
In it, if you don't have shares you don't exist. And, since Republicans think the free market is the model for everything, they put our government up for sale -- the thing in which we're all supposed to have shares. A stake. Not any more. Not voting shares, anyway.
We can still vote, but it doesn't mean anything. Citizens United saw to that. Since election results are binary tipping the scales amounts to voicelessness. Disenfranchisement. As for the economy, now for civic rights. The vestiges of enfranchisement persist.
We'll be tolerated and maintained because we make the capitalists money, indirectly. They divert it from the normal flows, adding nothing but taking ever more. What happens when we don't pay? Good question. Profit maximizations dictates we be gone.
We are expendable. Expensable. A write-off. But that would look bad. Hunt and peck, however, will afford cover. We'll be living on chicken feed.
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