American Workers make Part-Time Living.
auntblabby wrote:
GoonSquad wrote:
I was always paid and treated very well because I had a skill the owner desperately needed. However, my less skilled coworkers were not treated very well at all. My beef with small businesses is not personal. I just don't believe America can maintain a healthy middle class with these sorts of jobs. It is also becoming a moral issue. I simply cannot abide all the exploitation I see going on. If you are a professional or a skilled tradesman, you can do okay. If you're just the ordinary average persons trying to make ends meet, these are bad times.
QFT+! the successful in life are totally clueless about the rest of us not similarly talented folks. the successful types simply don't comprehend how anybody else could not easily duplicate what they have done, and IMHO they will never understand anything outside of their own successful experience.
No. Some successful people actually have a thing called a conscience, unlike the cold heartless hierarchy obsessed right-wing snobs on this board. There's no reason for people to suffer for being "unsuccessful" just so the more "successful" can satiate their oversized ego.
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ruveyn wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
QFT+! the successful in life are totally clueless about the rest of us not similarly talented folks. the successful types simply don't comprehend how anybody else could not easily duplicate what they have done, and IMHO they will never understand anything outside of their own successful experience.
The solution is clear. Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonegut. In the Vonegut dystopia the successful types are handicapped by physical devices so that they are equalized with the less successful types. The head of Equalization is the Handicapper General.
Successful runners should have lead weights locked onto their feet etc. etc.
The difference is nobody is asking the "successful" to sacrifice their talent. Money != Talent. Get it! Also, in a normal friendly competition the "loser" doesn't get to starve to death. At least the human race should have evolved beyond that.
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marshall wrote:
No. Some successful people actually have a thing called a conscience, unlike the cold heartless hierarchy obsessed right-wing snobs on this board. There's no reason for people to suffer for being "unsuccessful" just so the more "successful" can satiate their oversized ego.
to paraphrase henry kissenger, "90% of [them] give the other 10% a bad reputation."
auntblabby wrote:
marshall wrote:
No. Some successful people actually have a thing called a conscience, unlike the cold heartless hierarchy obsessed right-wing snobs on this board. There's no reason for people to suffer for being "unsuccessful" just so the more "successful" can satiate their oversized ego.
to paraphrase henry kissenger, "90% of [them] give the other 10% a bad reputation."
Oh come on now.
We really need to learn to distinguish the successful from the "successful". One can have talent and not be a narcissistic Ayn Randian umbermensch. The latter tend to be people who were born on third base anyways.
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