"Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flying here!"
When the solicitor asked me what I wanted done with the shares, I said sell them. Folk who own shares are all going to hell for taking part in man's inhumanity to man, and I'm glad Jesus Christ said the rich evil basturns are bound for the hot place.
Someone has got a jobbie somewhere and they produce ten clonks of value. Their boss gives them eight clonks and takes two. He keeps the two for himself or if he has shareholders, gives it to them. What have the shareholders done for this money? How much work have they put into making the original ten clonks? Bugger all! What the evil basturns who own the shares are doing is help exploit the poor basturn who actually does the work and produces the wealth. The difference between what the working person makes and what he or she gets is called surplus value. It's one of the things that's wrong with capitalism, stealing from working people.
Aye, they want you to give them awards and gongs and salutes for creating employment and giving folk jobs. Don't make me laugh! When the revolution comes, they're all going up against the wall!
When I was on minimum wages levels, I kept my mouth shut in front of the evil bourgeois basturns because maybe folk would think I was just jealous what with being skint and all. But I wasn't jealous. Now that I have unwittingly joined their ranks, they look even more despicable. The evil bourgeois are, always were, and always will be, bound for hell!
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ReplyDeleteInteresting post. Abdul tells me that he heard that all members of the proletariat in the UK aspire to getting so fat that the Social will give them an electric buggy so they can get to the pub and spend their unemployment allowance. Is that true?
MM III
No. Tell Abdul it is not true. The proletariat had to start drinking at home because they couldn't not navigate the pavements since they were crowded by the ancient evil bourgeois standing interminably shouting at the workmen digging up the roads!
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ReplyDeleteWhat were they digging the roads up for? No, don't tell me, I know. They were digging the roads up for triple time.
MM III
I'm not sure that I agree with your post. Santy and myself have an idea to develop an information service of use to researchers. We can't afford to develop it ourselves, because we are of limited means, so we have bid for funding to develop the initial idea further. If that bid is successful, we will eventually have a service which can potentially be sold to institutions, and become a business. But we will need further financial backing in order to cover various costs. At that stage we will look for investments from entrepreneurs. If we find some people willing to invest, then those people will want a return on their investment - i.e. a share in the company, in return for taking a chance on our business. This is the only way that the idea/company/business/service can progress.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with capitalism as my pal Dave used to say is that not everyone has capital. Poor people, for instance, do not have capital. That is why they are open to exploitation. Since the rich people got the money by exploiting the poor people, I think it is fair enough if the poor people rise up and shoot all the rich people. Anyway, all you are going to get is even more money from your capitalist venture when you don't know what to do with the money you have already. And just because capitalism works in a certain way doesn't make it right or the only possible way. And if you don't agree with the analysis of capitalism and surplus value, I'm afraid you'll have to argue with Karl Marx since I think the idea is his.
ReplyDeleteMingin'! They're digging up the roads so the evil bourgeois can sit on their fat behinds watching the telly. They're making sure the cables are working so you can get SKY and watch the creekit! You should try digging sometime for maybe half an hour, but only with an ambulance close by.
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ReplyDeleteHere in Kalimbuka, the roads are in a poor state. It's time for the graders to do their job. But with respect to cable - there is none in Kalimbuka - those of us who will be watching the Ashes will do so via dishes. My dish is the largest in town.
I sympathise with your other Commenter, roddymacleod - Poor people like him can have brilliant ideas which will help mankind and further research, but they can't get anywhere without investment from elsewhere.
MM III
Here in Stockeree, our roads are also in a poor state, but fortunately we have men to come and dig them up. Also, I do not have a cable or a satellite dish and the only folk I know who have them spend all day watching creekit! I also sympathise with poor folk like Mr Macleod who is probaby down to his last vineyard. But if he wants any money, he can always ask me since I'm totally loaded!!
ReplyDeleteHi John,
ReplyDeleteOur original idea was funded by several research grants, and the result was the free JournalTOCs service, which benefits many thousands of individual researchers worldwide. In order to maintain that free service (there are server costs, software costs, etc), we developed the Premium JournalTOCS service, which we have sold to some institutions. But now we need to extend and improve that Premium service, as the Internet continues to develop, and we need to keep up with various changes. So we need investment. Without investment, eventually everything will disappear, including the free service. So, I am interested in taking you up on your offer of funding. What cut will you expect?
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ReplyDeleteAbdul and Mr Issa are interested in investing their life savings in your idea, roddymacleod. What should they do?
MM III
Hi MM III,
ReplyDeleteThank you for their offer. The investment would be fairly high risk, and the potential rewards would also be high. It is not an apppropriate investment for someone's life savings, I'm afraid. It would be far more relevant for someone with a lot of spare money, someone who is loaded, such as John McKenzies.
I think this is a fantastic investment for the fabulous amounts of evil bourgeois money that has landed on me. Are we talking about girls, holidays, enticements for the older gentleman in the West Indies kind of a thing? I certainly hope so. Can we get some young women who want to learn English? I think you've got the job whoever you are!
ReplyDeleteWonderful, guys. I need a nurse on hand to help me since I am dead old and doddery.
ReplyDeleteI say! Come the revolution, how will the masses plundering your finances know to spare you the bullet?
ReplyDeleteAlbert? He who dies rich dies in disgrace as Carnegie might have said. All my money is going on fast women, drugs and more fast women and there won't be much left to plunder by the time the revolution comes!
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