Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
whats wrong with grocery store people makign that much? bagging ungrateful peoples groceries and providing clean food is not a important part of society to you?
BTW labor union were not mainstream until early 20th century. All things have examples of corruption but dissing unions is lame if your boss had his way you'd work 7 days a week..
Why not? anything less is not true free market capitalism, right?
BTW factory workers until unions came around were straight up SLAVES with 4 year old children working too in your utpian free market capitalism.
Not to mention the chinesse, irish, italians and anyone else not anglo-saxon back then.
Until we incorprated a bit of socialism in this country we were basiclly slaves to capitalists.
What's wrong is that grocery clerks aren't providing a skill that's in short supply. The clerks do NOT provide clean food; if they did we wouldn't have to wash everything when you bring it home. The "Clean" stuff is canned or frozen and has NOTHING to do with the grocery clerns.
Incidentally, if my boss had his way no, I would NOT work 7 days a week. Most people realize that a person CAN'T work every day without getting burned out, and when they get burned out they are LESS productive than they can nad should be. I work 5 days a week on a set schedule and if we need something accomplished that has to be done on the weekend I do it, but I'm paid well for my overtime. I am NOT part of a union and I never, EVER will be.
You might be correct to say that labor unions became CORRUPT in the 20th century in the United States, but they are certainly not the PRODUCT of the 20th century.
At NO TIME were Americans "Slaves to Capitalists". You obviously have no idea what a Capitalist even IS. A Capitalist is ANYONE who works for their own benefit, who has an entrepreneurial spirit that seeks th ACHIEVE in order to acquire wealth, whether that wealth be money or goods or some other form of profit. Profit can be *anything*, including the feeling of pride that one has from simply helping someone they love to accomplish something they maybe couldn't have done alone.
Your MISREPRESENTATION and DECEIT about Capitalism and Capitalists is SHAMEFUL. You are attempting to graft the definition of an IMPERIALIST onto a Capitalist, and they are NOT the same thing.
The only shameful thing here is your lack of knowledge and your obvious bias of socialism.