The New Interdependence of the Working Class - We Need Each Other

Think about work from a different perspective. When you call 911 you need help. When you buy a car you need transportation. When purchase new chairs, televisions, or anything else, it is because you need that particular items or service.  

You have a job because someone needs something that you are producing or providing a service for. If you own a business you must have customers to survive. Your work may be directly impacted by situations half way around the world, which you may not even understand. Case in point, a bank in Europe crashes. The wealthy investors loose everything. One of the investors owns a soccer team. The soccer team now goes into receivership. The best players leave and the team now has a loosing record. Therefore, no one comes to watch the team play and the local economy dries up. Then the person in China making the team’s uniforms and souvenir shirts loses his job because no orders have been placed for a while. He is then forced back to the farm and kicks a young farming boy off of the plot of land he has lent him to work.

So, reverse this and see what happens. The farmer needs the bank to work and the investor to make money, so he can effectively run the soccer team. The local economy needs the team to be successful so people come into town and buy goods at the stores. The person making the souvenirs in China needs to team to win so people buy his products. Back to the farmer who needs everyone to do well so he can work the plot of land and survive.

As you can see, everyone working in manufacturing or providing a service needs someone above them to want what they do, in order for them to survive. We are all connected now