In the United States, there is a very specific reason why people have been trained to say “race riots” instead of “racial protests,” and it have everything to do with private property insurance. A protest is something that insurance might have to cover, simply because that is something that a property owner could not predict. A riot? Well, that is simply lawlessness, and property insurance companies should not have to cover the acts of “irresponsible people,” as they see it. There are several acts of defiance that restless people are beginning to demonstrate, and unfortunately, workers have one more enemy: the mainstream press.
On October 1, rail workers began to strike in France, which was ironically the same schedule as the longshoreman strike in the United States. Despite the oft-touted belief that trades will inevitably lead to wealth and/or a middle class lifestyle, corporations across all fields have become greedy. Supposedly high wages mean nothing is everyone is asking for more money all the time. Sadly, the press has chosen to continuously depict workers asking for income to cover the shortfall as greedy, projecting the behavior of corporate overlords onto the workers. General residents blamed the distressed workers instead of the executives, just like the executives planned.
Truthfully, the press serves at the pleasure of the moneyed elite within imperial systems, and pretending that prices have remained the same while smearing the workers has been its modus operandi. The smear campaign came just in time for all of the new elections that have taken place, and serve as a reminder that nobody represents the people. Those who defend the companies will say that people who want vacations are entitled to avoid the disruptions. Guess those executives could have stopped giving themselves bonuses, and then maybe people could have continued enjoying trains.
Chasing A Dying Empire 