Medium is a Racket
A short work by David Dodd
I literally joined this site so i could hopefully msg my friend on here, and during the sign up process, they made it seem like you either had to pay monthly or annually to join; it’s not until one scrolls down this misleading initial majority of the page, to the bottom, where it also says “Or Create Free Account”. Everything is a hustle, everyone who you don’t know who talks to you out of the blue is almost certainly trying to sell you something or hustle you — basically lots of people are scum, including the designers of this site, in the way they intentionally mislead one into ALMOST paying for a monthly subscription… What a joke.
I titled this “Medium is a Racket” as an homage to very short non fiction work by one American WW1 General (obviously he worked his way up the ranks prior to WW1), entitled “War is a Racket”. I’m fairly certain that, being over 100 years old, it has now entered the public domain, so I will happily email an ePub of this phenomenal work to any who requests it (email me at dwdodd86@gmail.com) — one that economically breaks down how capitalists rip off the taxpayer to war profiteer, all at the expense of the average soldier.
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These of course tend to be the poor, uneducated, and marginalized members of American society — that is not to stereotype people who join the army, it’s just stats that the army has a disproportionate amount of poor people vs middle class or rich, versus the general American society…
War IS a racket, and capitalist pigs make money on the backs of poor (pun intended) dead soldiers, and the taxpayer. Read the book, you won’t regret it.
-daVe
