They keep voting for it because it sounds good to them. Why should a guy in a white shirt and tie make more than I do, who has callouses on his hands and a bent back?
People like Obama and other socialists and Marxists are all to happy to foster this sentiment.
People like Obama and other socialists and Marxists are all to happy to foster this sentiment
Class warfare is based on jealousy.
At a place I used to work, I'll never forget an email from a guy who worked in the warehouse (this company was a computer and network "Value Added Reseller") who was let go. Management was fair with the guy, and actually gave him a severance package, though it wasn't what he wanted, or felt was fair. One of the partners in the company was an auto collector who would buy old and classic cars and then restore them as a hobby. He (the partner) had just bought a 1911 Stutz for a bunch of money, and this guy sent out a rather hateful email to the company about how he was being paid an hourly wage (around $12/hr, as I recall), but was expected to do things like sweep up and mow the lawn for that paltry sum, while "the bosses" lived the high life, buying expensive cars, while raking in all the money.
It occurred to me (and I mentioned this to the guy) that this partner had a financial stake in the company, and had put his own home and family's future into the company 12 years earlier, and time after time, he had risked his family's future on this company, so why shouldn't he finally be able to "reap some of the profits." I noted that he was being paid far better and had benefits that he probably wouldn't have gotten doing the same job elsewhere, and that he should appreciate what he had.
I also mentioned that he had wasted the opportunity to improve his lot in life - that had he wanted to do so, he could have spent his "down time" at the tech bench, learning how to become a computer tech. But he preferred to just surf the Internet in his spare time.
Mark