{"id":2301,"date":"2007-11-12T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/write-on\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:23:47","slug":"write-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/write-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Write On!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I’ve been hiding behind the Hollywood writers’ strike. The truth is, I’ve been too busy with *work* (said with a Maynard G. Krebs intonation) to blog.<\/p>\n

While I’ve never been a member of a union — in fact, I’m not a member of much of anything — I do sympathize with the goals of unions to represent the interests of workers . I think the decline of unions coincides with the rise of the disgusting rich and the shift in the entire society away from work and towards get-rich-quick schemes. After centuries of capitalism, we all agree money is worth more than labor. With every lottery ticket, you say, “I should be rich and the quicker and easier the better.” But no one should be stinking rich. Certainly, it shouldn’t come easily.<\/p>\n

At some point, the only power a worker has over the boss is to withhold labor. (Similarly, the only power soldiers have over warmongers is to refuse to fight.) When no work gets done, even the rich may notice as they move from one gated community to the next.<\/p>\n

So, I can’t really identify with the Hollywood writers’ strike. Granted, I believe we all deserve pay that is more than a pathetic fraction of the few people at the top. However, we don’t all deserve nor get $200,000 for 20 weeks of work, 20 hours per week. Work in which we sit among witty colleagues having a lot of fun. (Yes, it’s still work, but not quite the same as scrubbing toilets.) Mind you, the world desperately needs more humor and laughter is better than bloodshed. Perhaps striking writers could use this time to bring comedy to the homeless. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I’ve been hiding behind the Hollywood writers’ strike. The truth is, I’ve been too busy with *work* (said with a Maynard G. Krebs intonation) to blog. While I’ve never been a member of a union — in fact, I’m not a member of much of anything — I do sympathize with the goals of … Continue reading Write On!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}