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In reply to the discussion: Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)96. "I will fight for every single worker to have what you have."
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Probably, because with time, we wouldn't allow psychopath's like Mitt Romney the
glowing
Jan 2012
#3
It seems like the ACTUAL hard workers get paid shit while the paper pushers get million $$$ bonuses.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#2
Yes, hard workers. You know, the one's with the ACTUAL SKILLS to produce. The CEO is useless.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#63
The working folk have to emulate the rich's work ethic so that they too can be rich.
Fuzz
Jan 2012
#6
HA! I am amazed at how many non-rich people buy into that bullshit, never realizing that the
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2012
#75
"Hard work is good for you." Usually said by rich people who don't work.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2012
#8
Serious difference between complaining about the help and complaining about lazy slaves.
intheflow
Jan 2012
#86
Going into Civil War literacy rate among White Northern Males was estimated around 98%!
ieoeja
Jan 2012
#125
Because the pie is only so large and the official state secular religion that a few have
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#21
I'm sick of it too - and the harder we work it seems, the less our pay increases.
Initech
Jan 2012
#24
I know several people who have had jobs eliminated where they work,
woo me with science
Jan 2012
#34
It is not Americans who demand "stuff" - it is capitalism that overproduces and creates this culture
TBF
Jan 2012
#76
I live very simply now because I've never had a pot to piss in.. and this is after
glowing
Jan 2012
#83
And sadly, many places in rural areas in this country don't even have a cell signal.
glowing
Jan 2012
#84
I don't know if we work as hard as, say, the 12 year old slave laborers that produce chocolate
jtuck004
Jan 2012
#44
There are very little options of "choosing" where one works.. these days its seen
glowing
Jan 2012
#57
I feel the same way.. I just want to be able to work enough that it pays the bills,
glowing
Jan 2012
#62
"Why are so many who work hard not making a living?" would be a better question. n/t
gkhouston
Jan 2012
#56
That's a great question. I hope people start asking these politicians when they
glowing
Jan 2012
#60
They want us living in factories, like the workers at that awesome Foxconn village
redqueen
Jan 2012
#100
Almost every low wage manufacturing job where I have worked required a lot of hard work
Nikia
Jan 2012
#119
We all must work; pay all that money into Social Security; and drop dead young! n/t
Tom_Foolery
Jan 2012
#126
I remember reading a news article describing how much money "Business" was losing on Angry Birds
Evoman
Jan 2012
#128
I once had a Japanese assistant who was training to teach Japanese to foreigners
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#129