The Defense Department is trying to quickly find vendors who are able to ship pre-made shelters to protect troops in the Middle East as the United States’ war with Iran continues.
The department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide “prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats,” according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday.
Who said homelessness is unsolvable? We don’t want to solve homelessness because poverty is the lynchpin for capitalism.
its also useful culture war tool, someone else to look down upon.
People with no money can’t participate in capitalism though so it’s every company’s motive to ensure their workers can afford to buy things and keep the economy going.
Better to err on the side of people dying in the streets than to accidentally let too many workers be able to have enough free time to think about improving society and organizing or protesting.
If you give them more free tine they’ll spend more money.
This is America people don’t protest, organize or improve society they think that’s other people’s jobs.
Under capitalism, you need a suffering underclass to keep the working class scared enough to accept their bad conditions and low wages. Generally about 2-3% of the population is sufficient.
Americans have had a long tradition of organizing and resisting. The 40-hour workweek was bought with worker’s blood. The apathy of the American body politic is a relatively new attribute, historically. My opinion is that it metastasized in 1971.
~I was taught all of this in American public high school and public university. Howard Zinn was required reading.~
I don’t care what happened in the 1900’s or in 1971.
I care what’s happening now.
We learn about the past to understand the present.
We didn’t learn much if we haven’t protested or organized in fifty-five years.
The irony of you making that claim while one of the largely protests in history happened today…
The top tenth of earners account for 50% of consumer spending. They don’t care if the poors have money.
Think bigger picture. If you don’t have the threat of poverty, you can’t convince workers to sell their time for less than it’s worth. That’s the entire basis for an investment economy. I pay you and sell your work product for more than I paid you, and you can’t say no because you’ll die ina gutter without my investment capital.
The thing you said is how they keep the masses working, by convincing them that 1) they need to buy stuff, and 2) they will deserve it if they work hard enough.
If your customer base shrinks but your prices go up you break even or better because it’s cheaper to make fewer items.
Economies of scale says it’s cheaper to make lots of things.