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Topic	Newsflash: No One's Going to Work Their Butt Off for $15 Anymore
willythemailboy 08/07/25 2:02:34 AM #72:	bachewychomp posted... Why would someone with a thousand times the wealth be less/only as worth blaming as millionaires as you're insinuating? It depends on whether we're blaming them individually or as a class, because there's sure as fuck more than a thousand times as many millionaires as billionaires. bachewychomp posted... where you'd rather not be advocated for at all than have someone richer advocate for you I don't trust anyone with that much money to be advocating for anyone but themselves, and I've never seen an example to show that I should. bachewychomp posted... Although the whole thing about Bernie being a millionaire was so stupid and overblown anyway. In other circumstances I'd have agreed, but Bernie in particular had been railing against the millionaires and billionaires exploiting everyone only to drop the millionaires part like it was radioactive the first time someone pointed out that he was part of the millionaire class. By calling you Bernie I'm saying I expect the same exact behavior from you. Your lifestyle is just as dependent on exploiting those poorer than you as anyone in a corporate boardroom. And this may be personal bias, but of the abusive employment situations I've been in none of them were caused by billionaires. The only small business I've worked for was operated by an asshole millionaire who in the end skipped town and left dozens of illegal immigrants protesting about not being paid for weeks (thankfully months after I quit); in corporate jobs it's not generally the CEO that's exploiting you, it's the largely millionaire middle management squeezing workers to increase their own "performance" based bonuses. xGhostchantx posted... A good start over there would be pushing for benefits since it varies state to state. In most western nations we get guaranteed paid sick leave and are actually encouraged (sometimes forced) to use our leave days (even months at a time). it would probably be a more palatable compromise for the red states. One big difference between European and American employers is that by American standards you're massively overstaffed. An American company generally doesn't have the staff to have people gone a month or two out of the year, and hiring more people (or paying massive overtime) is actually more expensive than raising wages (within limits, of course). --- There are four lights. <cite>willythemailboy posted [p:986021550] in Newsflash:... [t:81021496]...</cite> <quote>bachewychomp posted... </cite><quote>Why would someone with a thousand times the wealth be less/only as worth blaming as millionaires as you're insinuating?</quote>It depends on whether we're blaming them individually or as a class, because there's sure as fuck more than a thousand times as many millionaires as billionaires.bachewychomp posted... </cite><quote>where you'd rather not be advocated for at all than have someone richer advocate for you</quote>I don't trust anyone with that much money to be advocating for anyone but themselves, and I've never seen an example to show that I should.bachewychomp posted... </cite><quote>Although the whole thing about Bernie being a millionaire was so stupid and overblown anyway.</quote>In other circumstances I'd have agreed, but Bernie in particular had been railing against the millionaires and billionaires exploiting everyone only to drop the millionaires part like it was radioactive the first time someone pointed out that he was part of the millionaire class. By calling you Bernie I'm saying I expect the same exact behavior from you. Your lifestyle is just as dependent on exploiting those poorer than you as anyone in a corporate boardroom.And this may be personal bias, but of the abusive employment situations I've been in none of them were caused by billionaires. The only small business I've worked for was operated by an asshole millionaire who in the end skipped town and left dozens of illegal immigrants protesting about not being paid for weeks (thankfully months after I quit); in corporate jobs it's not generally the CEO that's exploiting you, it's the largely millionaire middle management squeezing workers to increase their own "performance" based bonuses.xGhostchantx posted... </cite><quote>A good start over there would be pushing for benefits since it varies state to state. In most western nations we get guaranteed paid sick leave and are actually encouraged (sometimes forced) to use our leave days (even months at a time). it would probably be a more palatable compromise for the red states.</quote>One big difference between European and American employers is that by American standards you're massively overstaffed. An American company generally doesn't have the staff to have people gone a month or two out of the year, and hiring more people (or paying massive overtime) is actually more expensive than raising wages (within limits, of course). --- There are four lights.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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