re: 1 - It isn't the same slice of bread. People get more and better health care now than in the past. Instead of one slice of wonderbread for $1, the benefit is paying for two slice of gourmet bread for the $5.
Doesn't matter from the perspective of what it costs to live. If health care costs went up to 100% of salary would you be getting a good deal?
The rhetorical question in your 2nd sentence doesn't provide much support for the conclusion in your 1st.
If health care cost where 100% of my income, then I obviously wouldn't be happy about the situation no matter how good my health care was. But they aren't close to 100% of employee compensation, and they are unlikely to every approach 100%.
The simple fact is that people are getting more in terms of compensation, on the average both wages and benefits are higher.
Another 'Tim black hole' of nattering insignificance.
Easy to say, but completely false, and you don't even make an attempt to support it.
Total compensation should be adjusted by the total rate of inflation. Picking off bits of your compensation and adjusting those by a higher rate, without adjusting other bits by a lower rate, means that you are overstating inflation's effect on compensation, and falsely claiming people are making less than they really are. But I suppose you would prefer to just manipulate statistics (or report or support the manipulations of others), if that might provide you with some minimal rhetorical advantage.
And what do you get with a HS diploma, promoted to check out clerk at walmart from flipping burgers at McDonalds?
A majority of high school grads go on to college, and many HS grads who do not have better jobs then McDs.
re: People with good connections now, also tend to do fairly well, or at least avoid being very poor.
Not talking about knowing the Mayor
Neither am I. I'm talking about all sorts of connections. There are always going to be some people who's connections get them better jobs. That was true in the past and its true today. |
