So, what's your solution? To just not work a job because it won't lead to "fabulous" wealth?
There are those born into wealth and those that accumulate it through hard work and good decisions and some with just blind dumb luck.
At the end of the day there are the "haves" and the "have nots". If the "have nots" have to work minimum wage jobs that's just how it is. Sorry you feel that's beneath you so you complain about "fair wage laws". Maybe you should focus on improving your own marketable skills instead of taking the ridiculous liberal position of those with wealth are "oppressing" those without it.
What's really funny is those same liberal politicians who run campaigns on these same platforms are busy accumulating their own wealth while posing themselves as an advocate for those people "victimized" by poverty.
The only difference between liberals and conservatives is conservatives don't hide the fact they want to keep their accumulated wealth.
It's got nothing to do with "beneath you". It's about paying a wage that a person can actually live on without having to rely on welfare. The lack of fair wage laws results in the tax payer ie us subsidizing poor business ethic. Why are you OK with that?
Because that is what "capitalism" is. That is the system of commerce that America was founded on. Free enterprise.
In theory I would agree that there is plenty of poor business ethics today, unfortunately the way the laws are tailored you don't break the law by practicing "poor" business ethics. You may alienate your workers, you may lose customers who don't like the way you do business. But you aren't technically breaking the law. In the same way the banks in 2008 who approved mortgages for people making $38,000 a year to live in a $650,000 house weren't breaking the law. Does logic and morals tell you this is both a bad business plan and unethical? Sure. Were there laws set up specifically to prevent this? Of course not. It was the American dream.
What you are talking about is communism. Which history has shown to fail over and over and over again.
Work on improving your own marketable skills if you would like to make more money. This will take effort and initiative on the part of the individual. Unfortunately in this day and age people don't place a value on this because by complaining loudly enough to government, government will give them what they need, i.e. "welfare".
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"The idiotic excuse of the people above me are holding me down doesn't really work. You work a job, pay your bills, enjoy life where you can."
These two sentences are not mutually inclusive. In fact, the latter sentence is generally that said by those doing the oppressing.
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Working a job and paying your own way isn't oppressive. Stop making excuses.
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"Working a job and paying your own way isn't oppressive."
I never said it was. But it's the expectation to just get on with your shitty job that those who oppress use to breed complacency.
It is not oppressive, but preventing fair wage laws is.
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So, what's your solution? To just not work a job because it won't lead to "fabulous" wealth?
There are those born into wealth and those that accumulate it through hard work and good decisions and some with just blind dumb luck.
At the end of the day there are the "haves" and the "have nots". If the "have nots" have to work minimum wage jobs that's just how it is. Sorry you feel that's beneath you so you complain about "fair wage laws". Maybe you should focus on improving your own marketable skills instead of taking the ridiculous liberal position of those with wealth are "oppressing" those without it.
What's really funny is those same liberal politicians who run campaigns on these same platforms are busy accumulating their own wealth while posing themselves as an advocate for those people "victimized" by poverty.
The only difference between liberals and conservatives is conservatives don't hide the fact they want to keep their accumulated wealth.
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It's got nothing to do with "beneath you". It's about paying a wage that a person can actually live on without having to rely on welfare. The lack of fair wage laws results in the tax payer ie us subsidizing poor business ethic. Why are you OK with that?
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Because that is what "capitalism" is. That is the system of commerce that America was founded on. Free enterprise.
In theory I would agree that there is plenty of poor business ethics today, unfortunately the way the laws are tailored you don't break the law by practicing "poor" business ethics. You may alienate your workers, you may lose customers who don't like the way you do business. But you aren't technically breaking the law. In the same way the banks in 2008 who approved mortgages for people making $38,000 a year to live in a $650,000 house weren't breaking the law. Does logic and morals tell you this is both a bad business plan and unethical? Sure. Were there laws set up specifically to prevent this? Of course not. It was the American dream.
What you are talking about is communism. Which history has shown to fail over and over and over again.
Work on improving your own marketable skills if you would like to make more money. This will take effort and initiative on the part of the individual. Unfortunately in this day and age people don't place a value on this because by complaining loudly enough to government, government will give them what they need, i.e. "welfare".
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"Because that's what Capitalism is."
Uh no. Capitalism is NOT about subsidizing industry. I'm not going to bother with reading the rest after this fucking daft remark.