Funny, that you seem to take offense to my insinutating you're a Republican, but yet you turn around and nearly call me a socialist. Good job. You don't know me and you don't know that sometimes, I just like to argue. :p And just because I've thrown a few words into an online journal, don't presume to know what my views are. I apologize if it seemed like I was assuming anything about you. Socialist...it's a dirty word to you, isn't it?
The low-wage worker depends on our spending because that's the vicious cycle I was talking about. Do you think this is how it should be? Because it's not a balance by any means. The rich are just getting richer and the poor, poorer. Our demand for cheap goods keeps people in these jobs. It breeds more low-pay, one-skill, little-to-no benefit jobs. If the demand is there, then supply, supply, supply.
"I am thankful for our capitalist economy, despite your incomprehensible belief that destroying it will make this a better world"
I'd like to know where I said that. Apparently you can't seem to see long-term effects of our actions. You SEEM to be of the opinion that by building a factory in a poverty-striken area of the world and "giving" the lucky citizens jobs, we're helping them. Is that true? Because if it's not, by all means....
If someone is prone to taking the easier route and taking menial labor instead of educating himself and striving for something better, how is "buy nothing" supposed to help him?
You make it sound like educating yourself and finding a better job is so easy. Did I not just get through saying it's not about buying NOTHING, but curbing our spending, WATCHING what we spend it on? And I didn't say someone is PRONE to taking the easier route, people are beat down mentally, some are FORCED to take that route. Some have families and it's a hell of a lot different to take a risk with quitting your safe, low-paying job for an education and the CHANCE at a better job when you have other people depending on you.
I have two jobs to pay down some bills, not scrape by. I'm living in a fucking castle compared to some people. I have no bitterness about my two jobs thank you. So I'm not exactly "taking it out" on anyone. This is about other people, John, not me. Imagine, someone thinking outside of their own world? It's amazing, isn't it. "The hand that feeds me"?....I can't even begin to comment on that.
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a socialist paradise?
Socialist...it's a dirty word to you, isn't it?
The low-wage worker depends on our spending because that's the vicious cycle I was talking about. Do you think this is how it should be? Because it's not a balance by any means. The rich are just getting richer and the poor, poorer. Our demand for cheap goods keeps people in these jobs. It breeds more low-pay, one-skill, little-to-no benefit jobs. If the demand is there, then supply, supply, supply.
"I am thankful for our capitalist economy, despite your incomprehensible belief that destroying it will make this a better world"
I'd like to know where I said that. Apparently you can't seem to see long-term effects of our actions. You SEEM to be of the opinion that by building a factory in a poverty-striken area of the world and "giving" the lucky citizens jobs, we're helping them. Is that true? Because if it's not, by all means....
If someone is prone to taking the easier route and taking menial labor instead of educating himself and striving for something better, how is "buy nothing" supposed to help him?
You make it sound like educating yourself and finding a better job is so easy. Did I not just get through saying it's not about buying NOTHING, but curbing our spending, WATCHING what we spend it on? And I didn't say someone is PRONE to taking the easier route, people are beat down mentally, some are FORCED to take that route. Some have families and it's a hell of a lot different to take a risk with quitting your safe, low-paying job for an education and the CHANCE at a better job when you have other people depending on you.
I have two jobs to pay down some bills, not scrape by. I'm living in a fucking castle compared to some people. I have no bitterness about my two jobs thank you. So I'm not exactly "taking it out" on anyone. This is about other people, John, not me. Imagine, someone thinking outside of their own world? It's amazing, isn't it. "The hand that feeds me"?....I can't even begin to comment on that.