>>>>It's a valuable reminder of what extraordinary people accomplish.
>>>>They are rare, but we have to be ready for them.
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>>Meanwhile lets not insist that extraordinary (sic) achievements are something anybody might achieve, if only they would strive for a change.
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>>>There's credit in regular work done with loyalty and competence and the pay ought to be enough to at least match prosperity enjoyed by parents if not exceed it
>Exactly.
>But you won't see that if people accept the con that they're lucky to have a job flipping hamburgers for $12/hour while people are buying condos in NYC for $20 million.
>That flipper is a victim of economic oppression.
>It's insane that there is no wage inflation here when the unemployment rate is at record lows.
>That could never have happened before the anti-labor actions started by Carter and Reagan and continued by every president since.
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>I don't expect the flipper to take that on- that's what leadership does.
>John L Lewis, Cesar Chavez, and FDR did it here- with limited success- but the most notable example in my lifetime of how seemingly helpless people can overcome economic oppression can be found in what Gandhi accomplished in India.
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>When the British governor asked Gandhi how he expected to stop the oppression, Gandhi's answer was simple, but brutally radical -
>"There are too many of us."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMv0hMy6a0
