georgephillip
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Even if your latest anecdote isn't more BS, how many total employees does your alleged employer have? How many total man hours per week does your owner pay for? What's the ratio of your owner's hours toil per week to total hours per week worked by all employees? Whats the ratio of your owner's pay to his latest stock room hire?Would you agree with this: your freedom of enterprise denies my freedom of a job?Capitalism isn't meant to be democratic. Democracy is a principle that applies to government, where consensus decisions are often necessary. Majority rule isn't necessary, nor, in my view, desirable, when it comes to our economic decisions.
If you believe in democracy, how can you justify not instituting it in the place where we spend most of our adult lives?
So you can dictate to others whether or not they hire you? So if I come to your place, and demand you pay me $50 every week to cut your lawn, whether you want that done, or not, my right to democracy requires that you do it?
See this is the kind of logic, that if the tables were reversed, you would instinctively understand that your right to your property, is not to be denied because someone wants it.
But employment is the same thing. You don't have a right to someone else's hard earned money as CEO of a company either. That money that the company has, was hard earned by the people who put their money, their homes, their blood sweat and tears into, in order to make it work.
I just got to hear the story of the CEO of my company. He spent four years working while going to school. He earned a degree in engineering. He worked for 20 years, as a level 1, and then level 2 engineer at a small company. Then he mortgaged his home, and his father mortgaged his home, and they both put both their homes on the line to buy out this small business. Now he's CEO of the business. He is there at 7 AM every morning. He leaves at 6 PM every night. He's flown around the world, traveled thousands of miles to go to trade shows.
He works his butt off. Now you tell me what you think you 'deserve democracy in his company'? Why do you have any right, what so ever, to tell him jack squat about how he runs his company? Bull. You have no right period. None!
And if you put in the hours that he did, and the money he did, and the risk he did, to run your own business, you wouldn't put up with me coming around demand democracy in your company either. And don't lie and say you would. You wouldn't. I know better.
Don't even try and tell me you would put your home on the line, and risk losing everything, and have some newly hired employee in the stock room, telling you he should have a say in how you run your business. Bull crap.