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"Only select individuals in society become richer."
OK, WHO selects them?
People who TAKE RISKS are the ones who sometimes become richer.
Most rich people have failed many times, but keep on trying.
They WORKED for it.
Something most will NOT do!
How "successful" are you?
How many business have YOU started?
Don't bother. You won't change minds. They aren't going to wake up and grasp the concept that true freedom means freedom to rise and also freedom to fall. And merit? Forget about it. Don't even bring it up unless you want to leave a welt. Merit stings them to the bone. Never forget that socialists and equity seekers are almost always non-hackers who know deep down that they've failed in life's competition and they just want others to shovel free s**t at them. They hide behind lovely words like compassion and equality and kindness but really it's just nice coat of paint on "You owe me free s**t"
Such pessimistic thoughts. Terrible. We are what less than 4% unemployment right now. Geesh, doom n gloom - how do you live that way ?
Yet American blue collared workers especially in the construction industry are getting paid half of what they used to because illegal aliens have taken over it. You'd better be able to speak Spanish to get a job in construction these days to. That's just the tip of the iceberg on how these illegals in collusion with their greedy employers have taken over American jobs and/or reduced their wages.
The one time I worked in a union shop I was appalled by what I saw. Every single time there was a dispute between labor and the company the union sided with the company. Every year a new labor contract was negotiated and they would announce the pay increases they got us. It was always followed by an announcement that Heath and Welfare (insurance and pension) dues were increasing by that exact same amount. They really didn't seem to provide any tangible purpose. They did, however, LEAN on you every election season to vote for.. DEMOCRATS!
I'll never do that again. With labor laws they really aren't needed anymore.
I worked for a union. As a female I was paid a certain amount. Went on maternity leave 6 weeks, my position was given to a guy. I returned at same pay in another area. He boasted of making $2 more than the rest coming in. I worked there 2/3 yrs. I asked the boss about it. His reply- he has a family to provide for. long story short- I got my position back with the $2 more and that mgr was transferred, the dude left and went elsewhere. Thank you UNION for defending this woman !
"Only select individuals in society become richer."
OK, WHO selects them?
People who TAKE RISKS are the ones who sometimes become richer.
Most rich people have failed many times, but keep on trying.
They WORKED for it.
Something most will NOT do!
How "successful" are you?
How many business have YOU started?
LOLz are you scolding me? For what? I am only stating the obvious. But since you seem to be scolding me, I will play along.
The previous rich people, who the current selection have coddled up too. Its mostly all inherited, whether it be socio-economic status or assets. Which can then be parlayed into greater amounts.
Nah, rich people nowadays are committing suicide once they make a mistake. See below.
Give me an example of a second chance within the last generation.
Or they do something sleezy and borderline illegal, or at best, something morally questionable. Examples, respectively, include Bernie Madoff and his ponzi scheme, or Zuckerberg stealing the idea, then getting his vampire squid uncle to do the rest.
Also our policies are out of whack for the longest time especially in the financial sector. That is thanks to those in the financial industry influencing our politicians into giving them out of whack advantages over everyone else.
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Don't bother. You won't change minds. They aren't going to wake up and grasp the concept that true freedom means freedom to rise and also freedom to fall. And merit? Forget about it. Don't even bring it up unless you want to leave a welt. Merit stings them to the bone. Never forget that socialists and equity seekers are almost always non-hackers who know deep down that they've failed in life's competition and they just want others to shovel free s**t at them. They hide behind lovely words like compassion and equality and kindness but really it's just nice coat of paint on "You owe me free s**t"
If there is a true meritocracy, then no bailouts for the banks back in late 2000s. Everyone gets prosecuted, no leniency. You made a bad bet, you lose, whether it be your job or your house or your reputation, or your freedom
What we have now is socialism for the rich, and dog eat dog for everyone else. The GFC bailouts is proof of that.
This Labor Day I am thankful that we no longer send 7 year old people to work the fields and mills.
Child Labor Laws NEVER had anything to do with “Labor Day” — which is and always has been a LABOR UNION initiative. In fact, the Child Labor Law excluded Field & Farm workers.
Agricultural child labor
However, while the 1938 labor law placed limits on many forms of child labor, agricultural labor was excluded. As a result, approximately 500,000 children pick almost a quarter of the food currently produced in the United States.
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Labor is work. [b]Unions are not labor.[/]
Unions are an abomination that have become the primary means for the unemployable to obtain employment.
Looks how difficult it is to fire bad cops and groomer elementary teachers.
Unions may have been a good idea at one point (before we had labor laws), but they are a cancer today.
Unions used to be about Trade Organizations in the Private Sector. They Organized for better working conditions, salary, safety, benefits. —. That is not the case today
Highlights from the 2021 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics :
--The union membership rate of public-sector workers (33.9 percent) continued to be more than five times higher than the rate of private-sector workers (6.1 percent).
In 2021 - 14 Million people were in Unions - Private and Public.
Essentially the Public Sector Unions — Local, State, Federal are Unionized against the US Taxpayers that pay thrir Salary, Benefits and Pensions. The largest percentage is the Local Sector.
I don’t believe in a Federal Holiday for 14 Million people out of 350 Million People — particularly when I am forced to Pay for their Holiday
politicians pander to corporations...always have..always will...they let decent blue collar jobs go overseas because of it..term limits is the only answer..I'm retired and I couldn't decide whether to play 'take this job and shove it' or this one for you working stiffs..lol..Happy Labor Day!!!!
1917 called and wants its socialist workers screed back. It's not Down With Capitalism Day, it's Labor Day. You see here in America we can acknowledge the success of the capitalist system that provides the engine of employment while at the same time honoring the workers whose labor and craftsmanship make the rubber meet the road.
Lenin came and went 100 yrs ago. His stupid anti-capitalist ideas whose language you are parroting failed grotesquely. Somehow the echoes of that implosion never reached your ears.
Oh bother - what we lost is the sense of pride working to achieve a good life, supporting our families and those who needed a hand up. Since the 60's the entitlement culture has gown caused by parents who thought that because they we black, or brown or yellow or what ever did not have to work and support themselves the government was required to. The democrats grew more and more in power because they knew giving away other money to those who had there hand out got them votes. a couple decades later and we now have entire generations think they are oppressed and deserving of free higher education, think because they got a degree in basket weaving from a UC whatever they should be paid 70k or more. More and more have lost self respect and the horn of working because the damn politicians will take care of you. Then those of us who took chances, worked our asses off, took the risks and the eventual reward of success are called cheats, racists, bigots and we are not paying our fair share. I blame the government and the past decades of parents that did not teach there kids about the pride of work and rewards that hard work and taking chances on your own abilities can bring.
Bingo! Pride in work = character. Working hard = character.
This Labor Day, I would like to thank all the capitalists that have hired me. The co-laborers I have known love to work and don't think of themselves as victims, but as very privileged to have a job. The rich who get richer spend their money trying to get even more richer. They expand their companies and hire more workers, or they start new companies and hire more workers, or they spend their money on big homes, yachts, and private jets and hire more workers. Money keeps going around and around. With socialism/communism, money goes to the government and the people all collectively get poorer.
I second your statements. We are blessed so many capitalists too so many chances in our wonderful nation.
"Look for the Union Label" is a phrase coined by racists to infer that "this item was made with WHITE labor" because back the day, Blacks could not join labor unions.
Don't generalize. Some unions rejected black workers, but not all.
"During the 1930s, as working conditions in the industry worsened and after protective labor legislation was enacted and put in place by the Roosevelt administration, black garment workers joined the ILGWU (International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union). There they were exposed to ideas that helped shape their worldview and their sense of themselves as workers and persons worthy of full citizenship.
The worldview black garment workers developed and the skills they honed in the ILGWU were not locked in place, but were transportable. Radicalized by the labor struggles of the 1930s and the ideas they were exposed to, black garment workers in New York took the skills they developed in the ILGWU into the burgeoning civil rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s."
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long story short- I got my position back with the $2 more and that mgr was transferred, the dude left and went elsewhere. Thank you UNION for defending this woman !
