Capitalist Pigs And Modern Careerism. An Exchange With Friend Fred Owens Of "Frog Hospital"

Fred Owens

March 5, 2015 · 

Looking back on --- I can't call it a career, but looking back on some forty years in the workforce, starting with my first after school job at Del Dotto's grocery store, leading up to my current position at Oscar's greenhouse, I must say it's been basically one crummy job after another. A lot of boring jobs that never paid well. I did not succeed, or earn top dollar or get any satisfaction -- with a few exceptions. I mean, there were a few bright spots -- but for the most part it was, and still is, routine drudgery for a few dollars.

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In large part, you - like millions of other Americans - have been disappropriated by "the movers and shakers," a group of tawdry, unimaginative socio-economic thugs accurately described as Capitalist Pigs. This term is not an epithet: it is straightforward Linnaean nomenclature. To your boundless credit, you have staid in touch with the earth (which S-Trump-ets are determined to degrade if not destroy); struggled to bring disparate people and cultures together; and have fought the good fight as an exceedingly good writer and journalist. Despite his faults (and who doesn't have them) Chesterton nailed it: http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/chesterton-to-get-all-that-money-you.html

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