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Gothy
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Re: The right to work - the right to be exploited.
Now, now... let us not stoop to name calling and all that... let's start with U.S. economics 101 (Not directed at you, your heinie-ness, but to the person who posted before about "all those welfare mothers having babies just to get free money" - a totally ignorant assumption, btw)
This is a capitalist society - driven by profit. In a nut shell, there cannot be a profit unless somewhere there is a loss. That means, simplistically, that some people get screwed out of a job. Or money. There simply isn't enough "in the land of plenty" to go around. Not to mention all of the veiled oppression that goes on in this country just to keep certain people poor and the vast majority of the nation's wealth in the 1% fat, white, male hands that hold it (ah, a generality that only mostly holds true - but the statistic is sound). Okay, make sense? Not only that... but the priorities of where the money lies, it makes me sick. My brother, with 2 bachelor's degrees, is a high school band teacher. He makes less than half of what my friend (who has no degree) makes as a TESTER at Microsoft. Where are the priorities? Why should my brother bust his ass to teach children "of the future" to become happy, healthy, productive members of society on the jack sh!t he makes? "For the love of the children"
Ah... geez. While video game makers with no degrees double and triple what that poor boy makes. Priorities...
Ah, well. That's my soapbox. I hope it makes a bit more sense to you now (I think your name is NT) that sometimes people just can't find a job, or don't have the priorities/privileges/lack of oppressions/etc. that others do who have the earning power and wealth in this country and no desire to see it otherwise.
-Gothy
Now, now... let us not stoop to name calling and all that... let's start with U.S. economics 101 (Not directed at you, your heinie-ness, but to the person who posted before about "all those welfare mothers having babies just to get free money" - a totally ignorant assumption, btw)
This is a capitalist society - driven by profit. In a nut shell, there cannot be a profit unless somewhere there is a loss. That means, simplistically, that some people get screwed out of a job. Or money. There simply isn't enough "in the land of plenty" to go around. Not to mention all of the veiled oppression that goes on in this country just to keep certain people poor and the vast majority of the nation's wealth in the 1% fat, white, male hands that hold it (ah, a generality that only mostly holds true - but the statistic is sound). Okay, make sense? Not only that... but the priorities of where the money lies, it makes me sick. My brother, with 2 bachelor's degrees, is a high school band teacher. He makes less than half of what my friend (who has no degree) makes as a TESTER at Microsoft. Where are the priorities? Why should my brother bust his ass to teach children "of the future" to become happy, healthy, productive members of society on the jack sh!t he makes? "For the love of the children"
Ah... geez. While video game makers with no degrees double and triple what that poor boy makes. Priorities...
Ah, well. That's my soapbox. I hope it makes a bit more sense to you now (I think your name is NT) that sometimes people just can't find a job, or don't have the priorities/privileges/lack of oppressions/etc. that others do who have the earning power and wealth in this country and no desire to see it otherwise.
-Gothy