hello american workers - news flash: corporate america and the government doesn't give a crap about you, just the bottom line. learn it, this is not new.
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hello american workers - news flash: corporate america and the government doesn't give a crap about you, just the bottom line. learn it, this is not new.
I find it funny that people from other countries think they know better how to run the most successful country in the world.I find it funny that every state in your country is its own little country with its own little asinine rules.
Thanks for putting that image in my head.........Make sure your pants are just tight enough to see the outline of your penis. It works for me. I don't work in tech. Nor, do I worry about my job firing me for age. They think I'm in my twenties still. I'll let them keep thinking that. I'm closer to 40 these days.
You were saying... https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ss...ed_off_by_their_own_ly.html#incart_river_home
Snip of it "
So, when Ed Richardson, the executive director of the state's largest teachers' union, was asked by the IRS to disclose his compensation in 2015, he came clean.
He listed it as $1.2 million in salary and benefits."
The same page shows that it's basically a free-for-all at the union's headquarters in Trenton -- compensation for the top five NJEA officers averaged $764,000 in 2015.
I happily opt out of NJEA.
Thanks for putting that image in my head.........
Thanks for putting that image in my head.........
I find it funny that people from other countries think they know better how to run the most successful country in the world.
Successful at what? It really depends on your metric. Sure we look good in GDP per capita, stock market growth, and military power, but we are 18th in the world in happiness, (Costa Rica of all places is ahead of us at #13) , and in income inequality indeces, depending on which one you use we fall pretty far down the list.
We are also failing at social mobility. Your income as an adult is much more likely to be influenced by the income of your parents than in most other industrialized nations, which is particularly sad, as we once prided ourselves on the "only in America" mentality of self made success.
We also have the third highest poverty rate among OECD nations, and our healthcare system, while it does very well for those top few percent who can afford it (which is why it attracts dignitaries from around the world) is absolutely failing for the population as a whole. We fall in #37 according to a much publicized UN study.
I guess my point is, by what measure are you calling the U.S. "the most successful"? Because to me it would seem that the most important metrics are how well our people are doing, and by those measures we are failing abysmally as a nation. I say this as a natural born U.S. citizen, living here now, but having grown up abroad (In Sweden) and traveled a lot.
Incomes may be a little lower in Sweden, but life is much much easier there, especially if you want to have a family.
When it comes to the well being of our people, we, the U.S. are the flaming dumpster fire of the traditional industrialized world.
EU representatives are elected.
And I'd take technocrats over the know nothing political numbsculls we have any day. Doesn't matter which party they are from. In the U.S. politicians are more likely to win by giving people unattainable feel good messages and bashing their opponents than by actually knowing the business of government.
Don't get me wrong, there is some of this everywhere, but we seem to have it down to a science.
The U.S. would be much better served by a parliamentary system than the system we have now which is fundamentally broken.
It's not that simple for most people. Not everyone can walk out the door and into the next job's door - particularly if they are in their mid 50's. With all the offshoring taking place, some jobs are almost impossible to get. For instance a solid 80% of IBM's software dev jobs are going to China and India. All that is left in north america are architecture and management jobs. And the jobs that are there are NOT 9-5 jobs.
So much this. Every big corporation has the same idea of "My shareholders love that I'm letting other companies pay high wages so the bulk of my consumer base can pay the high price of my products," when in reality it as you say. The bulk of the consumers are fast becoming people that only earn 40-50k/year. At some point, this cycle has to break something as people will only be able to afford the bare essentials especially if things like housing continue to rise.There's the smoking gun. This guy was probably making big money, they could pay a Millennial $40k/year and give them a $1500/year bonus and then gloat to shareholders about how much more profitable they were this year. Fast-forward to news article about Millennials killing some industry because they're not buying things for some reason.
People are beating down our doors to get here. Why haven't you moved to some of these other places?
Let me guess, everyone of the political numbskulls you would point out have an R by there name.
I lived in one of them for 16 years. It was great, and I have often thought about moving back.
It's difficult to uproot your family and fly across the world though, especially when you have developed a skillset that is very much in demand locally.
Nope. Both parties are to blame here, though that said, Republicans particularly in the house, seem to excel at anti-fact decision making. It would be nice to have technocrats who decide based on scientific consensus on the field they are making decisions (economists for economic matters, educational experts on the subject of education, etc. etc.) for a change. We have too much rage and heated rhetoric when what we really need is cold and detached fact based decision-making.
People are beating down our doors to get here. Why haven't you moved to some of these other places?
Let me guess, everyone of the political numbskulls you would point out have an R by there name.
We have politicians and people who push for higher wages, unfettered immigration, and lower prices. What the hell do you think is going to happen?
We think the corporations are screwing the worker but those same politicians are advocating for open borders. They are screwing themselves.
So who's responsible for driving down wages like that?
Politicians or greedy "capitalist pig" business owners?
Politcians and pigs are different from normal humans and family business owners...
Well it's the whole system that does. CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. Wages are a cost of operating, so by definition, their job is to make that number as low as possible. So, they're the "source", but politicians are supposed to represent the people, not whoever has the most money. In a strong democracy, you'd have lots of laws pushing back against exploitation of workers. Instead, the corporations also see they can make even MORE money by lobbying to get the laws changed in their favor, our politicians are corrupt as they come, so they're basically letting the fox run the henhouse.So who's responsible for driving down wages like that?
Politicians or greedy "capitalist pig" business owners?
Poliitcians and pigs are different from normal humans and family business owners...
Not in an at will state. They just can't fire you for a protected reason (age, race, sex, etc)
I find it funny that every state in your country is its own little country with its own little asinine rules.
And yet motherfuckers from all over the world are lining up to ask for a place in pretty much any one of them that will have them.
Go fucking figure.
My country isn't. It's actually the country you crybabies constantly threaten to move to when you're unhappy.
To all the people who have bosses, work 9-5, why? Why would any person in their right mind commit to quasi-slavery for a pittance of a wage? I could see if you're making bank like some of my buddies in banking, with asshole bosses breathing down their neck, and then retire after 5 years in IB. If you're making less than $150k post-taxes, why would you commit to such nonsense? It's boggling.
I can understand working to gain experience in some hell hole, taking bitch-made shifts + hours, kissing ass, towing the company line, but for multiple years?
I make less $$$ than I did last year, and even work slightly harder, but being self-employed, is far superior to having to deal with cocksuckers all day long.
The difficult part of work isn't usually the skill required, the hard part is dealing with bastards trying to jockey for power, and every variation of that.
Make 20% less, spend less time in traffic, less mental energy wasted, less stress, life becomes more enjoyable, don't need to rush to make/get coffee. Not having to watch my tongue all the time and agree with everyone or fear repercussions from some jagoff.
I actually make slightly more, with greater long-term potential than staying at a well-paying corporate jay oh bee.
My country isn't. It's actually the country you crybabies constantly threaten to move to when you're unhappy.
I find it funny that every state in your country is its own little country with its own little asinine rules.
well playedI find it funny that people from other countries think they know better how to run the most successful country in the world.
To all the people who have bosses, work 9-5, why? Why would any person in their right mind commit to quasi-slavery for a pittance of a wage? I could see if you're making bank like some of my buddies in banking, with asshole bosses breathing down their neck, and then retire after 5 years in IB. If you're making less than $150k post-taxes, why would you commit to such nonsense? It's boggling.
I can understand working to gain experience in some hell hole, taking bitch-made shifts + hours, kissing ass, towing the company line, but for multiple years?
I make less $$$ than I did last year, and even work slightly harder, but being self-employed, is far superior to having to deal with cocksuckers all day long.
The difficult part of work isn't usually the skill required, the hard part is dealing with bastards trying to jockey for power, and every variation of that.
Make 20% less, spend less time in traffic, less mental energy wasted, less stress, life becomes more enjoyable, don't need to rush to make/get coffee. Not having to watch my tongue all the time and agree with everyone or fear repercussions from some jagoff.
I actually make slightly more, with greater long-term potential than staying at a well-paying corporate jay oh bee.
Ah the both sides.... but the Republicans. Those anti-fact guys...
If you like you doctor you can keep it.
You will save $2500 a year on premiums.
We must pass it to see what's in it.
Or was it lowering taxes? Them rich middle class folk don't need all that money anyways. I'll take keeping more of my money to spend as I please then people dictating policy that do not understand basic economics and human nature.
Well it's the whole system that does. CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. Wages are a cost of operating, so by definition, their job is to make that number as low as possible. So, they're the "source", but politicians are supposed to represent the people, not whoever has the most money. In a strong democracy, you'd have lots of laws pushing back against exploitation of workers. Instead, the corporations also see they can make even MORE money by lobbying to get the laws changed in their favor, our politicians are corrupt as they come, so they're basically letting the fox run the henhouse.
Having wages driven down as low as possible is the NORM and means things are functioning as intended. The only way to change that is to have a push back somehow. With no push back, they will keep staying low.
I'd move to Montreal in a heartbeat...if you'd just fix that shitty winter I love it up there. Headed to Vancouver in the next few months, let's see how that is. I've heard great things.
And then there is the other side, Government Contract work. Yea I do my 40 a week, I wouldn't say I have to work hard all the time, (I find time to write a few books here don't I), and my pay is decent for where I live, the cost of living is almost the same here as it is in Austin, TX.
I don't have anyone looking to stab me in the back because I'm not competing with anyone on the ladder, I just have a nice seat staked out on a platform on the second floor. As long as the contract is good, I'm good. If my company looses in a re-compete for the contract, odds are high the new company will keep me on. If not, it's not the end of the world, I'll just be moving over to some other contract.
As long as my shit is tight and our customer(the government dude in charge) is happy with my work, then my company is happy with me. It's not hard to keep the government guy happy, just keep looking out for him and make sure you have his ass covered and your all set.
I will agree with you, it's good to be the king. But it's not without it's pitfalls and the world is a wide wide place with many opportunities available.
Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market — but the government provides green cards to roughly 1 million legal immigrants and gives temporary work-permits to roughly 3 million foreign workers.
The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap foreign labor. That process spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.
That said, Iowa's Low Unemployment rate results in raise in wages.
How does "flooding the market with cheap foreign labor" ~ "shifts wealth from young people towards older people"?
Go sit in the corner & pretend to read this book...
I'm not sure what you mean
I do my 40 a week, I wouldn't say I have to work hard all the time
I don't have anyone looking to stab me in the back because I'm not competing with anyone
Go sit in the corner & pretend to read this book...
I 100% agree with you, but again, it's not for everyone. I broke away from the herd and started my own thing to get away from all the bullshit, drama, and garbage pay (compared to what I could be making on my own). I'd never make this kind of money working for someone else, and it leaves me free to travel every month and see the world, focus on various other companies I'm building, investing, and just generally being far happier and less stressed. It's not without its pitfalls, but then again that's just the way the way it goes for anything really.
How does "flooding the market with cheap foreign labor" ~ "shifts wealth from young people towards older people"?
I got it backwards.
...just about every employment article so are basically saying "see, you lower immigration rates and wages increase."
To me, again if it is true, it is the main thing we should be concerned about if we would like to close the wealth-gap.
A reliable paycheck and more affordable health insurance are high in the list.
Most people who are in business for themselves need to have a spouse working a steady 9-5 just to make sure they can get good insurance, and have a paycheck just in case business is slow.
Besides, no matter what you do you always have a boss. It may not be a higher ranking employee, but you still have customers.
That, and the stress of variable income would be way greater to me than the frustration of the 9-5 office environment.