How You Can Avoid The Wage Slave Trap

Posted by iskandar the tiger | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | | 0 comments »


This article is the first in a series designed to improve the
accuracy of Members’ perception of the business world. This
accurate perception is the first requirement of financial
success.
Please be aware that this is not the beginning of a Communist
or Socialist tirade – we are Democratic Capitalists and
therefore pragmatic about interacting with the world as it
exists rather than dreaming of an unattainable Utopia. We
seek to prepare our Members to prosper and flourish in the
world as it now operates. If you really intend to win a game
then you need to know the rules.
Many people are trapped by their belief in the propaganda
generated by the State Machine which seeks to keep citizens
quiet and obedient. This propaganda attempts, with great
success, to instil the idea that if you are a good company
employee and pay your taxes then the state will look after you
from cradle to grave. It will protect you from criminals,
educate your children, support you when you are unemployed
and maintain your standard of living when you retire from paid
labour.
Sadly, this is all lies: The state maintains criminals and the
supply of drugs to destabilize the citizenry and it avoids
educating the children of the common people as educated
citizens are more difficult to control. It depresses welfare
payments to a level where a person is desperate to work for
the minimum wage and the pension system is undermined and
controlled so that those dependent on state handouts have no
voice, those defrauded of their lifelong contributions have no
redress and those presently paying subscription are led to
expect better treatment when they retire.
There is only one way to be sure of access to the better things
in life, not to mention health: You must be able to afford them.
This means being relatively wealthy and able to buy the
necessities and luxuries of life which are so freely available to
those with the financial wherewithal. So how do you become
wealthy?
If you wish to prosper and grow rich, the first thing you need to
know about the commercial world is that you cannot become
wealthy by working for someone else. Every business attempts
to pay its workers the minimum that it can. This means the
least pay and benefits which the firm can offer to its staff and
continue to own the labour of the workers and managers
necessary for it to function at an optimum level. Lower wages
means more profit to the owners of the business. Big business
uses government to hold down wages. Wages allow workers to
buy bread and sometimes visit circuses.
There are times and situations when an employer must pay
higher wages to compete for scarce labour or skilled staff but
this doesn’t happen for long because the Western Democratic
System is set up in such a way that there is almost always a
pool of unemployed workers eager to do unskilled work for the
minimum wage allowable by the law. This minimum wage is
set as a political tool to generate support for a populist
government whilst still only guaranteeing an unskilled worker
barely enough pay to survive.
The UK is cited in examples below owing to it being a good
example of a mature Capitalist Democracy.
After WWII the UK Labour government, to mention only one,
shipped in workers from Jamaica and elsewhere because
there was more work than workers and wages were in danger
of rising.
How many people do you know who have become
independently wealthy by working for someone else? Almost
certainly you do not know any.
The only capital which working people in the UK have is tied
up in their houses - and this is a government ploy to control
them. You will observe that the major payment a family has to
make is for the purchase of its home – by mortgage. House
ownership has been encouraged and enabled so that people
have security to be loaned money against by the banks, for the
banks’ profit, and so that they have something which can be
taken from them if they do not follow the rules set by the
government.
The actual astronomical price of a person’s house is of no
positive value to them because if they sell it they still have to
buy a new place to live or pay rent calculated on the price of a
similar property. House prices are maintained at this
scandalous level where young people are unable to buy homes
for themselves merely by restricting the building of new
homes. It costs little more to build a house now than it did 25
years ago yet look how prices have risen in the UK.
Only about 4% of land in the UK is built upon yet the people
are told that building is restricted to preserve the countryside.
Is a tiny part of this countryside more valuable as “set aside”
farmland, unused and subsidised by the EC, than it is as homes
for our people?
Or are the banks’ profits more important?
In many other countries of the developed world the
governments encourage home ownership to give the citizens
something to lose if they break the rules or do not repay their
debts. This is not in itself a bad thing but it is something you
should be aware of.
Prior to the 1750s the ordinary people of England used to be
able to survive by keeping a few chickens, a cow and a pig or
two on the common land and working an “allotment” type
vegetable garden. They would supplement this self-sufficiency
by working for the local landowner at harvest time but this
paid labour was only the icing on their cake and they could
survive without his pay if they had a mind to.
This independent-making situation put the common people in a
strong bargaining position with regard to wages and when
grain prices fell owing to cheap imports from the USA they
refused to work for the reduced wages offered by the
landowners. This made farming less profitable or impossible
for the landowners so, as the landowners controlled the
government, they decided to bring in a series of laws called
the “Enclosure Acts” and the Anti-Combination Laws”.
The Enclosure Acts made over to the major landowners all the
common land for them to farm. The effect of this, besides
building up the acreage under the major landowners’ control,
was that it forced the ordinary people to work for the big
landowners or starve because they could no longer support
themselves without the use of common land. The Anti-
Combination Laws effectively forbade people from forming
trade unions and banding together to fight injustice and
oppression in farm or factory.
Another result of these punitive laws was huge numbers of
people “Transported” to Australia and elsewhere for life as
slave labour to be used on the colonial farms. Many people do
not realise that transported convicts were not just set free at
the other end but required to work, effectively as slaves, for
periods of seven years and more. The crimes for which people
were transported included stealing a rabbit in the country and
stealing a crust of bread in the city. Was this justice or
slavery?
The reason the author is explaining these matters is to cut
through the propaganda which the ordinary people are fed in
Western Society. Principles do not change. The rulers still
don’t care for their workers - they only pretend they do for
public relations purposes.
The real reason for the end of slavery is that it costs money to
buy a slave and then more to feed him when there is no work
to do. An hourly paid worker can be dismissed and left to
starve without a loss of invested capital.
What does this mean to you? It means you are still oppressed
by your government on behalf of the hidden rulers of your
society. You need to understand the reality of your situation to
break free of it. In a civilised country you cannot opt out. You
must be a Master or a Slave. And to be a Master the only thing
you need is money. There is only one way you will ever make
real money; enough to live as you please without working;
enough never to have to doff y our cap to a boss again: The
only way is to be the Boss and own your own business. It
doesn’t matter if it is a window cleaning round, a market stall
or a commercial empire, the only way to fully benefit from
YOUR own labour, efforts or enterprise is to reap the profits of
YOUR production. To do that you must own the means of
production: A business.
The Private Millionaire Project is just such a means of production. It
is your own hugely profitable business. If you follow the
instructions it will enable you to amass for yourself, after a
brief period as your own boss, sufficient wealth for you to
retire and live in luxury for the rest of your life.








































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