If it aint right, why vote for more of it?

@Xuan12 Oh, and all this while the productivity of US workers has continued to rise. We're producing more and more output, but seeing very little in return.

@Xuan12 Yep, companies demand absolute loyalty and overtime from workers, yet fire them at the drop of hat and dont pay overtime. Disgusting!

@Mandalorian People keep saying that the system rewards and encourages hard work. But that's not really true. It rewards and encourages ownership. Hard work is what you have to do to please the owners. They [i]may[/i] reward you, but they really don't have to.

I briefly ran a company as it was shutting down. The owner/founder had literally skipped town, and it fell on me to tie up loose ends. This wasn't a volunteer or business thing really, I literally inherited the business after he went missing. Anyway, it was failing and closure was eminent, so we just tried to do it as gracefully as we could. One employee thanked me for paying his bills while it lasted. It honestly surprised me. I told him that I appreciate the gratitude, but I don't think I deserve it. Not because I was just there to close it, but because he earned that money. Businesses don't pay people who aren't profitable, or at least they shouldn't. Maybe this one did, it was failing after all. Honestly though, his wages weren't all that good. And he was so grateful for that underpaid position!