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...Boston, too, I have students who are doctors and lawyers. So they are luxuriant, but their life is governed by the central principles. What you need, you have, but the less you need, the more you are. That's the main principle. And you don't become a slave to the things...
Finally, the claim of consumer sovreignty does not address the people-vs.-profits issue. Would Federated and Allied continue to conduct business-as-usual with a foreign company discovered to be using slave labor? People buy Stevens because it's cheap, and that is so for two reasons: First, the company has made a concerted attempt to "dump" their products to beat the boycott, selling them below cost to keep the retailers on their side. Stevens board chairman Finley reported publicly to President Carter's office that "during the base period 1976-77 we sold our products substantially below cost...
...there. The proposed programs would cost over $50 billion; for much money the Volunteer Army could be made more attractive. Also the presence of thousands more troops could tempt politicians into engaging in adventurous interventions around the globe. Morally, the prospect of rights removed, liberties taken away, and slave-like labor is repellant...
...posters' call for human rights as "a slogan of the bourgeoisie and not of the proletariat." A front-page editorial in the Peking Daily contained one of the most ferocious assaults on capitalism to appear in China in several months. Said the paper: "Capitalist society is a mercenary slave system, involving police persecution, suicides, prostitution and so on." The Daily also castigated "certain young comrades" for their "lack of patriotism" in "begging for the support of imperialism in their espousal of human rights...
Working as an associate at the Wall Street law firm of Bass and Marshall is a curious sort of servitude. The associates are liveried in Brooks Brothers suits, their glass-box sweatshop has Oriental rugs, and the minimum wage is $27,000 a year. If they slave night and day for eight years, they may ascend to partnership and gain the privilege of exploiting other associates. Along the way, their brains turn into stuffed briefcases, and their souls are lost to mean ambition...