| I think a little bit of wisdom from one of my favorite writers might be appreciated here: """We have created a lifestyle that makes injustice permanent and inescapable. We have created a world where robots produce robots. Where capital breeds capital with very little need for the Eastenders of the world. Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous. At the same time rebellious with hunger and economically unimportant. What will then stop a final solution of the world problem? In People of the Abyss the Eastenders already saw it coming. They are, Jack London wrote, “encumbrances”, of no use to anyone, not even to themselves. “They clutter the earth with their presence and are better out of the way”.""" Taken from http://www.svenlindqvist.net/text_only.asp?cat=1&lang=2&id=2... |
"The Day of Judgment! More than he want it. From all the land rises the hunger wail, from Ghetto and countryside, from prison and casual ward, from asylum and workhouse—the cry of the people who have not enough to eat. Millions of people, men, women, children, little babes, the blind, the deaf, the halt, the sick, vagabonds and toilers, prisoners and paupers, the people of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, who have not enough to eat. And this, in face of the fact that five men can produce bread for a thousand; that one workman can produce cotton cloth for 250 people, woollens for 300, and boots and shoes for 1000."