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Richard Hutnik <richar...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Alfredo Tutino" <powe...@libero.it> wrote in message
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> > Richard Hutnik <richar...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > Destroy <a...@meplease.com> wrote in message
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> > > > Umm..if you don't like your job - LEAVE. Simple as that.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bill wrote:
> > > > > Just more reasons not to by Anything from EA
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.igda.org/qol/open_letter.php
> > >
> > > Yeah, everyone should leave.  It is called a strike!
> >
> > Oh my, a four letter word! No, wait, let me count, it is a FIVE letter
word!
> > ONE LETTER WORSE!!!
> > Too long too. You are one of those I-know-all types, aren't you?
> >
> > Alfredo
>
> Well, at least I know a few things (considering by undergrad degree
> was in Management). This is better than the know nothings who yell
> about the world and argue for the world to be worse for themselves, in
> the name of "principles".
>
> Yes, a "STRIKE".  It is something workers collectively do to get
> better work conditions.  Do you SERIOUSLY think corporations will
> magically try to make things better for workers, when their main
> principle is to maximize profits?
>
> - Richard Hutnik

Excuse me, Richard. I was trying to be funny (I even miscounted the number
of letters in "strike"!). But I didn't succeed.

I quite agree, in fact, with what you said about strikes and the need for
it, of course. I was trying (rather clumsily, it now turns out) to make just
the point that so many things that have been associated with communism
socialism and other forms of left-wing activity, but have in fact good
reasons to exist quite independently from it (as, for instance, strikes)
have come to be treated by some people (especially beyond the Atlantic) as
unspeakable horrors - even sometimes as some form of moral degeneracy - and
not as a normal part of the way any real democratic society manages the
differences among its components.

The matter of course would deserve much longer (and more serious)
discussion, and this is not the place for it.

For the sake of clarity, let me state at any rate, that: 1) I do think that
strikes are often a necessary tool for workers - and not only I've been on
strike myself, I've even been among the organizers of strikes; 2) I'm truly
sorry of having expressed my meaning so clumsily in my previous post.
Probably I should be wary of trying my hand at humor in a foreign language.

Alfredo