THE SABOT LEGACY OF SILVER FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE

IN THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION in Holland there were factory speed-ups and other kinds of modern management techniques. They wore out the workers with long hours and less pay per unit. No breaks and no safety. Open gears, shafts, pulleys and wide belts whirred inches away from child and adult workers being pushed to move faster for endless hours. Mean and stingy supervisors had incentives to push. Nasty owners and managers literally despised the workers whose misery provided them with luxury and excess.

The Dutch workers had wooden shoes. These shoes would sometimes come off, accidentally, and become lodged in the driving gears so that everything stopped.

Wooden shoes would smash cast iron gears or jam them. Removing the sabots, or wooden shoes were called, became a maintenance break for the hands. Sabotage became the weapon to force a rest, or some fairness out of the owners. Later on, many laws had to be forced on the owners to avoid sabotage and provide a more comfortable and safe workplace.

Every year the management strives to return to the good old 14-16 hour days.
People who have no idea how to actually work try to feel better than those who do. They have control issues, greed and megalomania, and no idea what it is like to work harder without hope or security.

These are the class of the silver spoon. Texas Ann Richards meant these bastards, too, when she said, "Poor George: he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." (G. H. Bush) His son would also excel in auto-sabotage, if he could only form a complete sentence.

The Sterling Sabot is alive in boardrooms globally. How directors set up systems to cheat the consumer and production worker amounts to sabotage of their own devising: see, how will people buy or produce without disposable income? Silver sabots in the long run will do the machinery in. Sustainability will require safety, security, peace, regulation, cooperation, conservation: all but security are hated utterances around board members.

Trying to talk security without peace of mind of the working producers, or workers, is kicking yourself in the teeth. Unfair working conditions just can't exist without a proportional loss of security.

Sabotage is getting what George asks for.

-30-bobby