So this interesting tale of a front-line foreclosure realtor showed up in my rss feed today. Go on, give it a read, and then come back. My comments can wait.

I feel for this person: it must be quite difficult to have a job that requires (at best) an appearance of detachment and a conscience, or empathy, or even a sense of another’s humanity, however strange and different that other may be.

And it’s good to hear the viewpoints of some of the (unwilling) foot soldiers in the Class War.

But I wonder what the world would be like if we all had the freedom to say NO, if we all pushed back, refused to perform socially destructive acts for our owners the corporations that employ so many of us, if we forced our jobs to conform to a common sense of humanity, decency, fraternity, and solidarity.

I don’t know if such a thing is possible, and I’m positive that some people would abuse that sort of freedom. But I bet there would be fewer homeless people, fewer foreclosures, fewer people in prison for nonviolent crimes and civil disobedience, and much greater social and economic equality in the world.

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