"What is sad is the huge number of people that don't realize they're effectively living without money now. Oh sure, they have job and they buy things. But they're only buying the bare essentials. Housing, food, clothing, etc. They're not saving for their retirement or their children's education. They can't take vacations or go to the movies without giving up something first.
But, they say, at least we're not communists!
Well, no. But you are serfs. Way to go, you took the great leap 400 years backwards from Marxism. Are you happy now?
ontheleftcoast's comment from this diary http://www.dailykos.com/...
I am a serf of the lowest type on the economic ladder. I am a housewife, a non-employed person. No health insurance, no 401(k), no Roth or IRA, no savings account, no credit rating-a "ghost" according to the reporting agencies. I won't even qualify for Social Security when I'm older.
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