Hobbes* liberates those who are excluded from society—the unsuccessful, the unfortunate, the criminal—from every obligation toward society and state if the state does not take care of them.
They may give free rein to their desire for power and are told to take advantage of their elemental ability to kill, thus restoring that natural equality which society conceals only for the sake of expediency.
Hobbes foresees and justifies the social outcasts’ organization into a gang of murderers as a logical outcome of the bourgeoisie’s moral philosophy.
— Hannah Arendt. The origins of totalitarianism. 1967. iBooks.
*Leviathan or The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil — Leviathan (1651; rev. 1668).— A masterpiece of political philosophy by Englishman, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Its title derives from from biblical references, most notably in Job. Leviathan is a primordial sea serpent.
Thanks! to Democratos a commenter on Kos for the quote
The rich have no need for the state to take care of them. They already are already killing us off Jeff Bezos goes into space and to pay for it Amazon just told all their workers that extra 5 minutes to go to the bathroom and wash our hands for break is gone.
Never mind the Delta Mutant is much much more contagious than the original Coronavirus that gave us the extra 5 minutes to wash our hands on break in the first place.
Jeff Bezos reply\s but ...but but almost all my employees ARE VACCINATED!
Yeah but kids to young to be vaccinated can get the new Coronavirus and even vaccinated people can catch the Delta Mutant Coronavirus and spread it to others like children!
Jeff Bezos\s I don’t pay my full-time employees enough money to even get a studio apartment in Compton! it would be just plain irresponsible for any of my employees to start a family on what I pay them!
Uh Jeff many of your employees have kids.
\s. means snark tag which means satire which should protect me from being fired
An extra 5 minutes each employee works instead of washing our hands on 2 paid breaks a day over 100,000 employees lets say $18 an hour average adds up to how much more work being done a week…. well I wonder just how many breaks it would take to pay for Jeff’s trip to space?
But, the letter said: "In the opinion of an engineer who has signed on to this essay, 'Blue Origin has been lucky that nothing has happened so far.' Many of this essay's authors say they would not fly on a Blue Origin vehicle." news.yahoo.com/...
I wonder how many breaks we will have to lose to save Jeff’s space company which the engineers who built his rocket would not ride his rocket plus Jeff lost a contract with NASA so revenue needs to be made especially now that Parlor once the best selling free app is no longer hosted by Amazon because of their involvement in the coup attempt on Joe Bidden. ( Jeff was scared about that the Patriot act does allow for assets to be seized with no trial if they are involved in terrorism )
But more importantly How many Amazon workers and their kids will die to pay for Jeff’s failures?