By justina colmena ~biz in money — 24 Dec 2025

Two types of people

And the cártel in the middle and all the bean-counting

This is from an employment or business opportunity ad of some sort for Amazon.

Two types of people are described, to wit, “Hay dos tipos de latinos en Estados Unidos,” as, I suppose, Spanish speakers are assumed to be “Latinos,” although that term is so broad and vague as to readily include all speakers of Italian, French, Romanian, and Portuguese as well as Spanish and all descendants of ancient Roman or “Western” civilization.

“Los que trabajan PARA el sistema”
“Los que hacen que el sistema trabaje PARA ellos”

In English, “those who work FOR the system” as compared to “those who have the system work FOR them.” The existence of “the system” as such is a pernicious cártel philosophy. It is too organized, as with phalanxes of Roman soldiers all marching in lockstep under command of centurions.

“The system” is merely a tool or a crutch or a pair of stilts to get around with. Those who work FOR it are locked into it as public servants or social workers, and subject to all its rules and bylaws. Those who have the system work FOR them will hack it, use it and abuse it however they see fit. It’s definitely part of the deal offered by large companies such as Walmart and Amazon to Latino workers in the United States.

The article mocks workers who handle sheetrock, and yet these very same white-collar bosses all like to have nice plastered and painted walls and ceilings in the homes where they live and the offices where they work. The suggestion is that there is “cash under the table” for installing sheetrock, all duly reported on 1099 forms of course by “beaners” or “bean-counters,” and the other opportunity is that of W2-reported wage or salary employment.

The system works ; it’s the people who don’t.
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