Questions of a customer who reads …

There is a poem, written by Brecht:

Questions posed by a worker who reads

I recently wrote about academics who may also have some special questions.

Perhaps it could also be ‘re-writtten’, like this … as

Questions of a customer who reads …

What is it one can find in a shop, for instance in a small town like Confolens, FR:

The shop: it is Lidle, German company

a chain soaring across more and more countries

distributing Asian food

produced in Germany

sold in France

with English-language label

– where did they produce the package,

from where did they get the oil for the plastic

from where the truck to transport the stuff to the train

which railway company brought the stuff to …

and from where are the workers who uploaded and unloaded the trains and trucks ..?

Who looks after the kids of the workers – are there creches maintained by the enterprise, public facilities or what solution is there for them?

Where do the owners of the enterprises pay taxes

– if they pay taxes at all

And what do they do with the profits …?

Who prepares the meal for the workers if they have to work all day long?

And what do the boss and the worker talk about

if they meet on the soccer pitch …?

There would be so many more questions to be asked – though Lidle has a shop, not a school, and a school has not time to go to shops, there are too many models to be learned about, not leaving space for reality, the pace not allowing to think too much …