@jacobs Said
Seems like an obvious conclusion to me.
Suppose I have a successful business. I'm bringing in the big bucks. So I buy myself a nice little McMansion, purchase an extremely nice car or two, buy a very nice boat, purchase only the best of clothing, and live my nice little happy life -- while paying my low-level employees minimum wage (or close).
I sleep well at night -- because I am financially secure, while I know I use the labor of the poor --
to do all the work for me.
The poor worry constantly. They have no hope. They have no car. They have no vacations. They have no health care. They live in government subsidized housing and have to ask for food stamps in order to buy the groceries -- while I am living the "good" life.
Oh well. Not my problem.
Obviously -- I could take a little cut in salary,
and at least give my employees a dollar more an hour -- but why should I? -- when poor people are so willing to do it for so little? (I mean, what choices do they have?) If one succeeds, there is a whole new generation of high-schoolers and poor people out there -- I can still use -- and they will be grateful I gave them a job. Any job at all.
I am rich. They are poor. Due to my own greediness -- I have chosen that they will remain poor, so I can be rich. Cause and effect.
I know that a lot of people will say -- "Hey, there are plenty of government programs and scholarships out there -- to help them get out of their rut, it's not your fault..." -- to help me ease my guilt, but the truth is -- the only reason I am able to remain rich -- is because there will always be some people out there -- willing to do the dirt work, that I will only pay -- minimum wage.
They are poor -- so I can remain rich. I deserve it, they do not. That is the way I think.
What do you think? Is this socialism, the way I think?
Under "Capitalism" -- talk to me about the
joke of minimum wage -- being not enough for any person to survive on -- without government help. (and then we criticize them for being on the "dole".)
The "Minimum Wage" in the USA -- is not enough for anyone to survive on -- without government help. So how is this any better than socialism?
Have any of you ever been poor before? Do you understand?
Why should some people have so much -- while the rest of the population serves them like slaves, cleaning their toilets and emptying their trash -- for minimum wage?
Why cannot the rich --
"share"?
(Guess they never learned that concept in Kindergarten.)
Is it too late for them to learn it, now?
Do the "Rich" -- create the "Poor"?
Well yes, this is a socialistic view, which by the way, contrary to what anyone tells you, does NOT make you a bad person.
However, you start out actually supporting the "top down" capitalist view and how it works.
You buy a McMansion... you taken part in "giving" money to poorer folks by way of salaries to all of the framers, concrete workers, plumbers, and on and on that worked on that McMansion.
Same for the car... the boat... and on and on. See? Being rich is not evil either!