Awaiting football season, and Tim, not that i want to get into a long heated ricochetting tit for tat back and forth...but you mentioned one time about the ease in which people are free to quit a bad employment condition... Trust me on this. Homeless shelters are filled with people who thought the same thing believing and being told that their work ethic and dilligence and willingness to work hard would surely get some employers attention and they would get picked up by better employment in certain quick fashion.Tim here in the real world, regardless of skill and or knowledge level be it dexterity with the hands or communicative leading others, a person takes what they can get and often it is a horrible place with bad treatment including routine abuse and disrespect from a bad boss who should have never been allowed to be a boss. Here in the real world, most people with only one thing in life; their labor to sell is vulnerable to higher powers that have the power to pick and choose. The people who own the means and modes of production and distribution and sale of goods and services have tremendous leverage over people they employ. Most economic relationships are based upon an extreme disequilibrium of power. The more you need the relation the more you are forced into making concessions in wages and conditions to acquire and maintain the relational exchange. Supply and demand often mean the more you need smething the more you can be gouged and abused for it... This is especially true in the health care arena in which insurance and pharmaceutical companies have huge sway vis-s-vis companies that employ people. The powers that be have turned health care slowly but surely over the decades into a luxury commodity. I believe in markets, but what we have is a condition in which the masses have become slave to the market as the market tells people what to do and people do not tell the market what to do. Corporate dominated markets control the condition and the biggest winners in this game own all of the elected officials and they have tremendous political clout and representation whereas the masses of people making anywhere between $7.25-$15.00 have no representation and when someone speaks out on their behalf they are called a commie, a socialist, a free loader, a statist. You refer to NAFTA as SHAFTA and rightfully so. If you believe that protections of the environment are not essential then go to China where U.S. corporations go where you have to wear a mask to breathe and their water is constantly contaminated and their age of life expectancy is 8 years sooner than ours. The difference between the U.S. and other countries that are part of Free Trade deals is the fact that we put limits on corporate power and have labor laws that protect workers in many ways...but too many of a certain ideology believe that environmental protections and labor laws are BIG GOVT and Communism. Government does a lot of things I do not like...To me it is asinine that a woman has to pay forty dollars out of her hard earned money to serve a draft beer at an Applebees or a father on a day off of work wants to take his son or daughter fishing and is required to buy a fishing license and then is questioned at a local lake by a Conservation Cop about whether or not they have their fishing license. The majority of decisions that impact and affect our lives are made out of corporate offices and/or boardrooms and not a requirement for a safety guard on a punch press in a factory and also not antitrust laws that prevent some mergers that run against public interests and put a downward pressure on wages. These moneyed powers that be (corporate chartered operations) hold huge sway over zoning boards and planning commissions and determine where and how work is done everywhere. Whole communities are pitted against each other to bring in the jobs...Wouldnt it be nice that each community could produce their own employments? and stop being at the mercy of corporate behemoths far away and even some that are foreign owned. Well each community sets their wage scale lower and has tax giveaways to compete for jobs and it truly becomes a race to the bottom... Workers, sole proprietorships, partnerships and the citizens of every community are prey to corporate power in this regard. The corporate powers that be own the economy and the government and a free market discource echoed by mllions become their protective aegis.Government and police and our legal systems defend vehemently property rights as a higher priority over human rights ...For millions of people with only their labor to sell what determines whether or not one gets employed are whimsical factors such as whether or not an applicants personality will fit into the clique of a social group and whether or not the hiring manager finds a personality flaw that inconveniences him or her... Basically superficial factors determine whether you can pay the rent and feed and clothe yourself ... The moneyed powers that be who seek to enhance their leverage end up calling all of the shots...This would be no different than Super Bowl Winners always getting the first round draft pick. Disadvantages in the poorest communites continue to compound while the advantages in wealthier communities continue to compound and until people truly relaize the zero-sum nature of markets, we will never get better as an economy or a society.....
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:57:16 +0000
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