I don't think you're getting the point I'm trying to make. We Americans have been hearing a drumbeat from Corporate America for the last twenty years, telling us that we have to work harder for less or else they'll ship our jobs overseas. There are engineers who spent eight years in college who are having their salaries driven down by imported H1-B labor. Meanwhile, the people in the executive suites are buying things like hundred million dollar mansions, $6,000 shower curtains, $2,200 wastebaskets, and $450 pincushions. Can you see the potential for popular resentment?
Let me acquaint you with a little bit of history. Do the words "Let them eat cake" ring a bell? Remember the unpleasantness that came shortly after those words were spoken? I'm thinking that what's about to come will make that look like a tea party. Stories like these only add fuel to the fire.
Yes, I can. I've worked for corporations run by A__holes. And do you see that the reason corporations do that is the high cost of government and regulatory compliance that everyone has to pay? The other major factor is the myth that full employment and higher salaries cause inflation. They don't, but they do give more clout to the working class.
Ha ha ha.
This country is based on the free market and not some mythical "fairness" doctrine.
That means if you choose the wrong employer and are not able to make that employer stick to their word, then it's your fault and your fault only (unless under contract). If you are being screwed, that's why we have the civil and criminal courts, which you may petition.
Personally I don't give a hoot that anyone bought a $6,000 toilet seat. I only care that the deal I make with an employer or client is legitimate and enforceable, and that I'll get my money. If the company goes bad, well, it was my fault for not doing due diligence on that company (whether as an employee, contractor, or vendor).
We live in a country where that is the case. You agree to pay me at the 31st of the month, well by gosh you'd better have the money.
Yet if I screwed up in my assessment of whether you could or would do so, that's my bad. Not "the system".
Your arguument is entirely based on jealousy. No if, ands, or buts about it.
In over a decade of international travel and reading, the views you espouse are held mainly by avowed communists, socialists, and statists.
Most recently that mantle is being held by psychotic Islamists (read the PLO founding documents or thae statements of bin Laden). Plain and simple. They are murderers and socialists.
Americans and their supporters are being murdered out of jealousy Plain and simple.
That is the way of totalitarians, whether named Hitler ("the Jews") Arafat ("the Jews") or Amin ("the Indians") or Mugabe ("the Whites") or bin Laden ("the Americans, the Jews").