jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
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>>It all boils down to the "Bottom Line" - large corporations making big money
>>and getting rich off of the little guys. It's the "American Way"...ok, next
>>to suing someone for some petty bullshit.
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>
>
> If large corporations are getting rich, its because they produce
> something which is of value to the "little guy". Economics is not the
> enrichment of one person at the expense of another, its a voluntary
> exchange of goods or services which both sides consider to be equal in
> value. Of course, once the government gets involved and the market
> ceases to become truly free, all bets are off. 100% agreement on your
> second point though, the desire to get something for nothing and the
> complete lack of personal responsibility shown by many people is an
> anathema to all that is decent and good, as well as the principles
> which founded this country. It reminds me of the (somewhat cliche)
> question, "What do you call 10,000 trial lawyers at the bottom of the
> ocean?" where the obvious answer is "A good start." ;-)
>
>
I was going to stay outta this one.. oh well
Sorry Jon - you may be correct that corperations get rich because they
produce goods or services that the little guy uses...and on paper it is
an exchange of services for monitary funds.. as you say... but that, I
believe, is an overly simplistic view of corperate america. How it
operates day to day is not so cut and dry.
Having been employed by no one other than coperations for all of my
working life (be it a shorter span of time than others here have been
working) - I have seen the little juicy sides of corperate greed. And
its impossible to deny that the people with the power and the
privilage... reap the benefits.
Is the CEO so much more valuable and important a person that he needs
his 7 figure salery, stock options, bonuses, and perks? Raise gas
prices - Mr little guy has to spend more money to drive to work to make
Mr Corperate America rich. The big dogs in corperate america forget that
the little guy down on the bottom is very important.
Chop the legs off that corperate ladder and the guy standing on the top
rung falls on his ass.
The gap between the haves and have nots is greater than ever. We have
no middle class to speak of... Jon Q Public is living off credit cards
more and more not for toys and electronics, but for groceries and gasoline.
I bust my ass 11-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, get walked all over by
my customers and I'm expected to smile and say thanks and come again!
I'm selling the goods! Corperations view their employees as an drain on
prifots - the employees GENERATE the profits! Without me - Mr Corperate
America doesn't get his bloody bonuses. Corperations get rich because
they CAN. And there really is nothing that anyone can do to level the
playing feild.
With all that said - regardless of which side of the fence a person is
on - the picture is far bigger in perspective than either you or I have
touched upon. And frankly I'm starting to adopt an "I don't give a
Fhawck attitude" - because I'm sick and tired of all the bullshit
surrounding our economics, politics, and state of affairs in this country.
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