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In reply to the discussion: Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]guardian
(2,282 posts)147. So given my example
2 married teachers each earning $46,000 per year: You are saying you want to "bring them down to size" and "seize their bank accounts, homes, cars, bling, and investments" and you consider them "thieves" and everything they have to be "ill-gotten gains".
So now we know what you want to do with current crop teachers. Since, according to you, most teachers will be either (1) forced to do manual labor, or (2) spending 23 hours per day in a 3 meter by 3 meter cell; I'm guessing your proposal is to limit teacher salaries too for new teachers.
So what is the upper limit you will allow a teacher to earn before you force them into a 3x3 cell?
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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