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In reply to the discussion: Meet the CEO Who Cut Worker Pay in Half While Pulling in $21 Million Last Year [View all]haele
(12,640 posts)I know you don't get paid what you're worth, and that's the fault of your employer and the culture of your community, not the fault of someone else who works just as hard as you do.
It's not your fault, and it's not my fault being a techie type that's making halfway to six figures.
But having lived in several communities that have gone through revitalization, I know first hand it's amazing how quickly and how much lower wages, additional living wage jobs and the community standards go up just with even just a 5% increase to a depressed community population of families recieving wages in the $45K - $100K range when a new tech business or hospital with union wages moves in and those employees settle in that area.
The problem is that we need more jobs with a living wage and a chance to advance. And frankly, "rich people" don't create those sorts of jobs, consumers who spend in the area create them. Money churning in the local economy create jobs.
I've been extremely (One daily meal of PB&J living out of the car) poor in my life, and know how much luck and "being in the right place at the right time" plays into having a job that pays the bills and puts a little in the savings account. Hard work, education - that means nothing without opportunity, and just one mis-step or accident can cause you to lose it all.
Being bitter of those just up the wage ladder from where one is and calling them sell-outs doesn't help anyone's position in life, it just makes it seem as that that person wants to drag everyone who isn't "rich" down to their level - or worse, ensure anyone that doesn't meet their standards of "virtuous poverty" can be put benieth them and sneered at for being selfish and greedy instead of a proper prolitariat.
Trotskey never said people couldn't make money for themselves and their comfort. It was more that they shouldn't profit unfairly of the labor of other.
Haele