Topic: Entitlement Mentality - page 9. (Read 11684 times)

That's why I said this:
William Binney said it best the other day I was listening to him talk: "We are no longer a country with a government, we are a government with a country."

I'm all for everyone making $15/hour baseline

If everyone in the States got bumped to $15 and I'm sitting at $35/hour, do you think I'm not going to ask for a raise as well? My skills are still just as valuable in relationship to the minimum wage.

Don't worry, your government is busy inflating the currency quickly enough that that will soon be worth less than what minimum wage is now (counts bitcoins).

This is good for every PERSON, just not big corporations bottom line--which we all know to be the bane of our existence today.

I'm all for everyone making $15/hour baseline

That's the root of your misunderstanding, OP -- strikers aren't praying to their employer, they're ... striking.  See the difference?
Greedy assholishness is neither here nor there.

...I gave up responding when the intended message of the OP was tortured beyond recognition.

So, you're seeing record profits and consistently low wages and joblessness?  Then, find another line of work or pray helplessly as you wait for your fate to be determined by the same employer that you detest.  

"Hey, you're a greedy asshole.  Can I have a raise?"

Meh, the thread is about dead. Do you know what a "closed shop" is? Do you know that striking is often legally protected? If the workers want to join together in collective bargaining, that's one thing. When it's mandated that you're part of that collective or you don't get a job or that employers aren't simply allowed to kick your ass to the curb if you refuse to work, that's quite another thing altogether.

It's easy to say that without any context.

First, we are in a unique period of RECORD corporate profits coupled with high joblessness. That isn't normal. Normal has typically been high corporate profits coupled with increasing payouts to employees, who spend their money and stoke inflation. We're getting there, a coup,e more years and we might just be close to where we started

Second, if one employee protests for higher wages, yes, it's easy to dump them and move on. Especially when people are fighting over jobs. In other periods, it's even employers fighting over labor. It will b again, too. Its easy to put one employee out to pasture, much more difficult to put your entire workforce out and then rehire and retrain them. It'll be much more difficult to put them all out, hence the point of collective action

It's no more of an entitlement attitude for someone to expect better pay than it is for someone to expect another to work for them at only the cheapest rate possible. In a perfectly tuned capitalist system, both sides would have power and be able to make some demands and cede other to other demands at the same time. Right now, were in a flawed environment because employers have all the power. In the future, the pendulum will swing back. And if your that steadfast in not paying wages that employees eel ate livable, you may just find yourself with an empty shop.

We would love to slant all, rather than most, of the laws in your favor.  Unfortunately, that raises the problem of tar, feathers and pointy pitchforks.  But we're working on it.

Love,
  The Government.

Excellent post, and suddenly the detractors aren't responding.  I love the blatant idiocy displayed by "it's the free market" when a business owner does something, but suddenly when workers naturally self-assemble into unions, it's somehow communism or socialist sponsored oppressive regulation.