Workin On The Chain Gang Intro

In this blog I will discuss the introduction of Walter Mosley's Workin on the Chain Gang. Mosley is discussing the chains we have attached to ourselves, regardless of skin color. When some would only think only African Americans are oppressed with chains. Mosley states “decisions are made by governments in concert with corporations that are designed to increase profit and influence, not to advance humanitarian end” (Mosley 3). The keyword of this statement is describing capitalism.  Governments and corporations are linked to increase beneficiary support for one another whether it is power and or money. The consideration for everyday society is not important, somewhat on the bottom of the barrel.  We are being controlled by these two affairs. We are working as their slaves, they have the hold and control over us. They say who, what, where, when, why and how much we get paid. Mosley states “The economic system, the system that rules so much of our lives, does not, probably cannot, value human labor above any other commodity or resource. Under the weight of this system a man’s labor is no more valuable than its equivalent cost in pounds of potatoes” (Mosley 12). This quotation is important because it’s describing how appreciated we are. We are just working laborer units nothing more nothing less in the eye of corporate society. There is no principle and justice when it comes to power and the dollar sign. So regardless of skin color in today’s society we are salves in one way or other, we have chains attached to corporations or government.