LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corporate Welfare, Social Inequality, Consumerism
9 Sep 2016
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Questioned why workers accept the conditions present. The way that power exists in the ruling class through their access to power and their ability to sell us ideas. Gramshe believes workers accept the ideas of the dominant group because we believe these ideas to be true and rationale, we come to consent to capitalism being something natural and rationale and believe the myths of capitalism. If we work hard we will succeed . We have to believe that most workers don"t work hard and the top 1% (owners etc. ) are the hardest workers. We have to accept that those who live in poverty in developing nations and earn . 50 a day are uneducated, not hard working and deserve their wages. We know this not to be true. The idea that what is good for the corporation is good for the worker. The power of the ruling class is based on two facts:
