The story referenced below is a sad tale but a common one.

A young man feeling pressured by his employer worked long hour days for a long period of time and as a result died.

A small sacrifice for predatory capitalism.

I believe in righteousness but there is small part of me that admires the complete ruthlessness of working people to death for maximum profit.

If you can work a human being for forty hours a week, you get the benefit of a regular employee but if you can classify his job as not being covered by hourly limits, you can get him to work eighty hours a work, two workers for the price of one. My understanding is that a hundred hours is the current popular number.

Do I need to tell you that this is a cruel from of exploitation?

We live in a society that worships mammon. The fact that the Bible expressly prohibits the worship of money does not seem to have any traction at all.

Of course any sort of Christian based belief system parted ways with American capitalism long ago.

So, people are being sacrificed to the bottom line. In this case, worked extreme hours for long periods ot time. Dying young saves the company from the problems of paying retirement and there are many other benefits besides.

I remember studying child labor in the late 19th Century. They worked six days a week, 12 hour days. Of course, that is only 72 hours. One could be impressed at the kindness of management.

It is well understood that when huge multi-national corporations mistreat their workers, that they have little individual recourse. They are an atom alone in the universe to paraphrase one of predatory capitalism’s most revered leaders, Margaret Thatcher. Alone and helpless against politically influential and in the case of the United States, politically invulnerable.

Overworking people is just a corporation and its leadership mistreating and exploiting human beings. It is simple abuse.

Why hasn’t anything been done about this?

Because we have two political parties, one dominated by oligarchs and the other has a thing called corporate Democrats which means they attempt at times to appear to be friends of the working class but their abject corporate servility and devotion to corporate contributions are so ingrained they find that any action that might benefit common workers is in their view unrealistic and radical.

In fact, it is quite clear that corporate Democrats find voters a bit intimidating and troublesome. That is why they employ think tank and professional to avoid contact with the teaming masses praying for help.

And so the abuse of workers, unpaid overtime, illegal firings, union busting and sometimes simply working a human being to death is beneath the concern of those running our government.

In the United States corporate profits are superb even magnificent.

Do you know why?

It is hard to fail as an American corporation because you pay few or any taxes, you can legally treat your workers as little more than cattle, and largely exist outside all the rules — and if rules get in your way, you can get them fixed.

It is a very comfortable place for a corporation to exist, not so much for the worker though or the citizen or any human being with moral fiber.

Read the story below and realize that he died for corporate profits.

James Pilant

Madison E. Goldberg writing for People Magazine has a article: Microsoft Engineer Dies at Work at 35 as His Family Warns of Overworking Employees.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/microsoft-engineer-dies-35-family-134823435.html

A 35-year-old Microsoft engineer died at work in Silicon Valley last month and his family is now warning companies of overworking their employees.

Pratik Pandey was “found face-down” at 2 a.m. local time on Aug. 20 in Mountain View, Calif., on Microsoft’s campus, according to the Palo Alto Daily Post.