Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved

September 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is work in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 2.

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A Labor Day poem about the suffering of billions of people and what might be done about it:

Life for most of us has not improved.

A few billion live in agony.

Beasts live better, and are far more free.

Of course, the rest of us are deeply moved.

Remember, then, though business may be brisk,

Decency demands we buy and sell

At prices that reward the labor well,

Yet yield returns that justify the risk.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Work

9/2: Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

9/3: Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise

9/4: Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved