Death to Cashiers

There is a short window of time when people are completely productive, pulling in cash. It lasts about 40 years. Let’s say age 25 – 65 (if nothing goes wrong). That’s just 40 years. People live, on average, almost 80 years. So half of each life is spent not working.

And then there is illness that can hit at any time.

Righties want to pretend that none of this math is true. Or at least that the government should not have to collect taxes and distribute payments in order for every person during half of every life to feel some sort of security. Because why?

I do not understand it.

Some people are cashiers at Target—and no matter what, that’s all they will ever be because of their location, their imagination, their intelligence. Whatever. That person can never work enough hours at Target to pay for him-herself for the forty years of work and then the other forty years (assuming the work for the early years is passed onto children). Ever.

Must everyone become industrialists, stock brokers and successful small business owners in order to double up on cash? How would we buy our cheap goods if we did not have someone at the register at Target ringing us up? Do we care about that person? At all?

No. Because Righties still believe in slavery. And they don’t care if the slaves die.