||| FROM EDWIN WORDSWORTH |||


An open letter to the sensible,

How few of us there are, of late.

I know I don’t speak for myself alone when I announce that I for one have no temperament for this socialist hubbub about minimum wages and affordable housing. My America is built on an entirely different notion, a Greater notion, you might say. Why, in my time, a grand, domineering, monopolistic company simply owned all the residences in and around it’s operational locale and rented said residences to its workforce at a profit. The company, in this way, is like a discerning father, whose mere existence provides  the means for his children to be housed and nourished, and whose wealth insures a secure and comfortable future for his family for generations. Furthermore, when, on occasion, his child is compelled to defy or question his acumen, a father must edify his progeny by force. 

Regarding minimum wages to be paid; the wage is a most powerful tool which ought not to be manipulated by governments. A man will not work if he does not hunger; pay him a wage for his labor and he may attend to his stomach. Too great a wage, and he shall become slothful, which is wicked. It is a fact that common men have no righteous purpose for surplus monies, and we should have no purpose to allow him any. We have only to observe the so called “boom-towns” where men are compelled to gamble, drink, and fornicate their fortunes to nothingness just as soon as they receive them. How can such a man contribute to our great society if he is motivated only by his vises? Let us allow the Market to decide his worth, not our corruptible institutions of so-called governance. 

The Marxist scheme to artificially reduce the value of housing is detestable, and frankly un-American. From the founding of this Great Bastion of Liberty, land has always been a prime commodity. I’ll present to you a most simplified formula for the acquisition of land, which has proven faultless:

First, claim a largely unoccupied (and just as importantly uncivilized) mass of land.

Second, use the funds which have been bequeathed to you from generations of familial wealth-building, that which has originated ultimately from God, and bestowed upon your righteous ancestors.

Thirdly, build from nothing a vast empire of mining, production, and importantly, real estate in order to perpetuate your wealth.

Fourth, assemble a force to defend this wealth, as necessary.

In summary, if the aforementioned guidelines are carefully observed, I cannot understand the need for such tendencies as a minimum wage, nor affordable housing. The company provides tenements for its workforce, that’s obvious enough, and a wage, although evidently superfluous, is paid simply to compliment the ultimate reward, which is, plainly, a job well done.

I, along with my multitudinous constituents, believe is high time to in a word, invalidate this disturbing trend among the liberal charlatans of our fair land. The most affordable aspect to affordable housing is the fantasy itself. There will always the those who are willing to sell their time for the going rate which the Market dictates. Let us not allow a few dissidents to spoil this nigh flawless system. This is the natural way, shown to us from On High.

Produced for your consideration, in the spirits of

J. Hill, H. Ford, A. Carnegie, C. Vanderbilt, J. D. Rockefeller,  and penned by E. Artemis Wordsworth


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