"The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development... sit-down strikes, are frightening to the business world ... - because a sit-down strike is just a step before taking over the factory and running it yourself.... The idea of worker takeovers is something which is, incidentally, very much on the agenda today...
Plutonomy refers to the rich who buy luxury goods whilst the Pracariat are people who live a precarious existence at the periphery of society. Only it’s not the periphery anymore. It’s becoming a very substantial part of society.... If working people are insecure, if they’re part of the precariat, living precarious existences, they’re not going to make demands, they’re not going to try to get better wages, they won’t get improved benefits....
By Noam Chomsky
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