There’s nothing wrong with wealth inequality, and every society even the Soviet Union has had an oligarchy. Give everyone the same amount of money & resources at the beginning of any period, and a year or ten down the road, they’ll be in wildly unequal circumstances. Some will prosper, some not.
At this point I’m convinced you’re either a Russian troll bot, a different type of plant, or someone who has wealth already, with defending wealth inequality and the oligarchy. 🤷♀️ really explains the coldness and lack of humanity.
Wrong on all counts. I’m poorer than you and was anti-corporate until the pandemic. But it wasn’t my artisanal baker who kept me alive during the lockdown & the early dark days of COVID. It was Amazon, and UPS, and Target, and CVS, and Instacart, and USPS, and Pfizer-BioNTech, and Apple.
If we lived in a society that valued looking out for each other instead of the harmful rugged individualism that capitalism and grind culture has forced upon us, we could have community resources and sharing so we wouldn’t have to depend on corporations. Corporations will not save us. /1
Capitalism will not save us. Those corporations you mentioned probably don’t pay their employees a livable wage so while yes they were helpful during the pandemic to you and others- their employees were put on the line. /2
Not true. Corporations paid through the nose during the pandemic, overpaid far beyond what jobs’ skill sets called for during The Great Resignation. And grandmas living on Social Security scrimped on groceries to tip generously. Result: rampant inflation and tipping greed.
That was the pandemic. What about now? Do you think those standards ran over to now? Everyone should be paid a fair and living wage. You are so close to realizing the problem. Corporate greed and “gig” job situations that don’t pay well so that the only real profit is from “tips”. Corporations /1
Are not the victims. Corporations and their billionaire class leaders are leeches on society. They don’t pay their taxes but suck up money, time, health from the rest of us. Whats sad is that people think certain “skill sets” mean that you shouldn’t be paid a living wage even though their jobs /2
are necessary in society to make it run. /3
The Soviets had a system for making society work, “No work, no eat.” They were called the Parasite Laws. And they decided who did which work, where, for how long, under what circumstances. They also decided what you got paid.
Also based on your previous statements it really sounds like you, yourself think a certain percentage of Americans add “no value” to society and that is fucked up.
It’s sad that people think others should not be paid a living wage because they don’t consider the job they are working as “high skilled” even though without them the corporations your trying to defend wouldn’t be able to run.
What’s sad is that some think you “deserve” to be paid just for drawing breath. No effort, no service, no value, no contribution to the employer or society as a whole is necessary on their part. That spirit of entitlement is a feature of younger generations and has replaced a spirit of service.
No one thinks they should get paid for “drawing breath”. That’s bullshit. But everyone should be paid a livable wage. If CEOs of corporations can rake in billions of profits then they can afford to pay their employees a livable wage. We don’t live to be of service to corporations, sure we /1
Should be of service to our community. But corporations already get our time and labor.
Of course it’s run over to now! Wage greed has exploded. Tipping greed even for jobs that require no service is out of control. And NYC has a Socialist nincompoop promising to DOUBLE the minimum wage to $30/hr! Thankfully, that’s not a mayoral power.
In NYC, $30 is necessary. It's not "wage greed". It's simply paying the going price. It's not your labor. I don't care if they're "flipping burgers". If they're working for you 40 hours a week, they need to be paid like it
Exactly! I really don’t understand this persons argument.
The problem is who can afford the $20 burgers the $30/hr worker produces? Your wage greed is hurting the truly poor: folks living on fixed incomes (the elderly and disabled, the homeless, couch surfers). The CEO doesn’t suffer. The customers do, and franchise owners go out of business.
You're saying $20 burgers arbitrarily A fancy burger takes ~$5-7 to make. Say you sell them at $15. You sell 10 an hour, that's $80-100. You can pay $30 minimum. It's sustainable. You are responsible for getting enough demand to meet overhead costs. A $30 min actually gives you more biz.
“Wage greed” lol the working class has barely enough to get by each month and in your mind that’s “theft”. People wouldn’t have to depend on tips if corporations paid more. Do you think that certain people shouldn’t be paid enough after working 40+ hours a week to live and pay their bills? 🤔 /1
Defending corporations instead of the people that help them build all the wealth they have accrued doesn’t earn you any extra brownie points. Mamdani is looking out for the interests of the working class New Yorker not the billionaire leech class. That benefit from the labor of the working class. /2
So many in our government has forgotten to legislate in our best interest.
Don’t misstate my meaning. I’m not “defending” corporations; I’m *praising* them. Corporations saved my life and the human race and provided desperately needed employment to millions who suddenly found themselves out of a job while the rust wheels of government were slow to respond to the crisis.
Mamdani is either an ignoramus who doesn’t know the limits of mayoral power or shrewdly counts on voters being too ignorant to know. And by the way, his base is not the working class struggling to make ends meet; Cuomo overwhelmingly carried them. Mamdani got the “gentrification corridor” vote.
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