This is classic leftwing loserthink. It's the idea that one MUST have an employer. The last time I worked for someone else, I was 31 years old. I was a high school math teacher making $20,000 a year. My wife and I had put together our incomes to buy a new house. After a year, we talked to our builder about a doing a covered driveway. A casual comment he made changed my life. He said, "Your house has probably risen $15,000 in value since you bought it." Bingo. That was 3/4 my salary. For doing nothing but living in a house. As a teacher, it didn't matter if I worked hard or not, I still made the same $20,000. I decided from that moment on I was going to get into the house business, and get 10 houses. And more after that. My income depended solely on the work, effort, and smarts I put into it. And thus is the beauty of capitalism. Anyone with average intelligence can do the same. You don't have to sit on your brains bitching online about being screwed by "the man". You can be the man.We are in a current situation where the workers at the bottom cannot get a raise of share in the economy without those in power taking it back from them.
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- The rising wages at the bottom are seen as an evil trend destabilizing the economy
- Company profit margins being higher than ever (basically rising wages at the top) is seen as economically healthy and good
- Companies have raised prices to protect profit margins to historical highs during supply issues taking advantage of shortages in the marketplace is seen as good
- The Uber wealthy continue to accumulate wealth in tough pandemic times and good times (pre and post pandemic) and no one cares
- The answer from those in power will be to raise interest rates, slow the economy to create unemployment hurting the bottom, again
- Tax rates on workers and capital continue to favor capital owners
- Unrealized wealth is only accumulated by the top - hell wealth is only accumulated at the top where top 10% own 89% of the wealth
- CEOs are making a historical multiplier over their workers salary, north of 270X’s
I owe my livelihood to capitalism and make top 1% money but it is the systemic exploitation of the bottom through very powerful controls of capital at the top. There needs to be a more balanced playing field.
How can people who work with their way through life get the same breaks as those who own their way through life? No one wants to take shit away… they want a fair shake.
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