Sunday, November 18, 2012

All Hail Our Dystopian Future

I'm really not quite sure I understand how conservatives imagine their future lives.

Perhaps the most striking response to the Hostess news, in that sense, was the tweet from conservative John Nolte, who wrote “Hostess strikers had pension. PENSIONS! What is this 1962?” It was once taken for granted that an industrial worker who worked for a big company for many years would get a solid middle-class lifestyle, and would be taken care of in retirement. Today, that concept seems to many like a relic. Just as Wonder Bread does.

I don't really agree with the main thrust of the article. Sounds like Hostess got Bained. Looters looted and blamed the workers. Late capitalism.