A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is “necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,” and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days.
(I recommend the audiobook. It’s more digestible than the written book, and is only 50 hours. It’s a pre-apocalyptic novel with a few sci-fi elements, but mostly it shows America collapsing into communism.)
Forced labor is happening in Venezuela right now.
A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is “necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,” and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days.
Straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
(I recommend the audiobook. It’s more digestible than the written book, and is only 50 hours. It’s a pre-apocalyptic novel with a few sci-fi elements, but mostly it shows America collapsing into communism.)
Directive 10-289! Just re-read the book over the summer and was amazed again at how prescient Rand was.
Definitely going to get it. Thanks for the recommendation!
Are you John?
Who is John Galt?
I just read atlas shrugged. Do you have other recommended reading about pre apocalyptic scenes?
The new Hunger Games prequel starring Snow is pretty good.
I made the mistake of reading it during the 2008 campaign. Creeped me out big time seeing the parallels...
Pol Pot has entered the chat.