Mar 14, 2011

Me hace acordar a la caricatura de los capitalistas de Nineteen Eighty-Four

But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page. You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat. This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it. The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw them into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'. The chief of all the capitalists was called the King, and --


Más allá de que el estereotipo del productor rural que intentar venderle a la perrada carcomida por el odio y en resentimiento no existe más desde hace décadas, aún si realmente fuera como dicen, ¿está mal ganar plata?

Porque si ganar plata está mal, perderla está bien.

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