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Topic	American Capitalism
BUMPED2002 12/26/19 1:08:32 PM #16:	Unbridled9 posted... Multiple factors but, I suspect, the single greatest influence is that American workers just don't know any better. They don't bother to learn about other people and cultures (especially since they're working so much) and thusly don't realize that things could be better. Plus there is a massive anti-communism strain in America which makes anything that would benefit the worker highly suspicious, religious grounding, and a mentality that you shouldn't 'rock the boat' and cause problems. Especially since a lot of places practice 'at-will' employment which basically means your boss can fire you at any time for any reason. When you have a family to support this means your boss can basically go 'work an extra 10 hours a week for free or be fired' and you'll be encouraged to accept because, if you don't, your kids go hungry. I believe it's because American Capitalism was born on slave plantations. America's capitalist system has now spawned the worst work conditions arguably since slavery and especially since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation because that is the birthplace. Let this marinate for a moment, in Iceland, 90 percent of wage and salaried workers belong to trade unions authorized to fight for living wages and fair working conditions. When workers have no voice i.e. unions, ultimately they began to see wages and benefits shrink which has been the case in America since the late 1970s. Only 10 percent of American wage and salaried workers carry union cards. Inevitably, and history has proven this, when hourly paid workers have no voice, soon after they start to see wages and benefits begin to shrink. That's ultimately what has happened in America since the late 1970s which explains why wages in America have been stagnant for over 4 decades. Historians have pointed persuasively to the gnatty fields of Georgia and Alabama, to the cotton houses and slave auction blocks, as the birthplace of Americas low-road approach to capitalism. Slavery was undeniably a font of phenomenal wealth and no one can deny that. By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Cotton grown and picked by enslaved workers was the nations most valuable export. But keep this in mind, those slaves who created that wealth with their free slave labor did not benefit from that work. Their labor created wealth for others and that's essentially what we have today in America's Capitalistic society. --- SpankageBros <cite>BUMPED2002 posted [p:932078948] in American C... [t:78282453]...</cite> <quote>Unbridled9 posted... </cite> <quote>Multiple factors but, I suspect, the single greatest influence is that American workers just don't know any better. They don't bother to learn about other people and cultures (especially since they're working so much) and thusly don't realize that things could be better. Plus there is a massive anti-communism strain in America which makes anything that would benefit the worker highly suspicious, religious grounding, and a mentality that you shouldn't 'rock the boat' and cause problems. Especially since a lot of places practice 'at-will' employment which basically means your boss can fire you at any time for any reason. When you have a family to support this means your boss can basically go 'work an extra 10 hours a week for free or be fired' and you'll be encouraged to accept because, if you don't, your kids go hungry.</quote>I believe it's because American Capitalism was born on slave plantations. America's capitalist system has now spawned the worst work conditions arguably since slavery and especially since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation because that is the birthplace. Let this marinate for a moment, in Iceland, 90 percent of wage and salaried workers belong to trade unions authorized to fight for living wages and fair working conditions. When workers have no voice i.e. unions, ultimately they began to see wages and benefits shrink which has been the case in America since the late 1970s. Only 10 percent of American wage and salaried workers carry union cards. Inevitably, and history has proven this, when hourly paid workers have no voice, soon after they start to see wages and benefits begin to shrink. That's ultimately what has happened in America since the late 1970s which explains why wages in America have been stagnant for over 4 decades. Historians have pointed persuasively to the gnatty fields of Georgia and Alabama, to the cotton houses and slave auction blocks, as the birthplace of Americas low-road approach to capitalism. Slavery was undeniably a font of phenomenal wealth and no one can deny that. By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Cotton grown and picked by enslaved workers was the nations most valuable export. But keep this in mind, those slaves who created that wealth with their free slave labor did not benefit from that work. Their labor created wealth for others and that's essentially what we have today in America's Capitalistic society. --- SpankageBros</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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