The following letter ("A Note of Appreciation from the Rich") is an eye opening, blunt, satirical social commentary. The principles found within it are accurate & truthful, yet everything in this letter IS NOT literal. Keep in mind that I am NOT the original author of this letter, however, I copied and pasted it with the original author's permission. I encourage you to copy and paste it to your site too. You can find the original authors page here.
I inserted "A Note of Appreciation from the Rich" in my site with the hope that it will help educate and bring about awareness (at least in a small way) concerning the ubiquitous yet often
unnoticed, deemphasized class struggle in America. In my opinion, it is the eglatarian "American Dream" that is responsible for keeping most of us apathetic, sceptical, or in the dark about the class struggle in this country. Another major contributor to the populace's apathy, ignorance, and noninvolvement happens to be the very pervasive, deeply ingrained belief that we really can't make a difference or change things. This is wrong and we need to be shaken out of our slumber. Read on.
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold." Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against..... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage- managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening - instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "Niggers," "Jews," "Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.
We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!
Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organised to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system-robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.
So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" - without even knowing it!