Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Lost Income

People who work for a living could have for years brought home a certain salary for a 40 hour
week.
Years ago, that same amount of work, 40 hours, began to show a lot less net money for the individual worker.
While this was happening to real middle class workers, the corps they worked for were reaping
greater and greater profits, paying for increasing less medical care, and paying fewer and fewer
taxes. Who paid, unwillingly, for the swollen, unearned company profits? People attempting
to work for a living paid for it ... without implicitly agreeing to pay for it.
Is every group cheat nothing more than a capitalist venture?
If you are a worker who would enjoy a situation a bit more even-handed than that, is it because
you are jealous?
You may be jealous of cheats and extortionists.
Could you have sunk that low?
I don't think that's it. It doesn't sound much like jealousy. It sounds more like wanting your
share. I think you want what you have worked for, and not only that which a company can't
get away with cheating you out of in salary and benefits.
Sounds less like envy and more like American citizenship to me.

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