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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630519)10/6/2011 3:22:38 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1582746
 
>The difference is that I don't expect government to help at all. Safety net and relief programs are nice, but none of that will solve the real problems.

The real problems are the people are suffering. Fixing that has to be priority number one. If you're not helping actual people, what's the point?

>Now here's the thing. I don't see anywhere in the contract of life where these upper managers or upper classes owe anything to their subordinates.

You don't believe in the same social contract I do.

If they give me a job, great. I'll make sure that what I produce makes me too valuable to layoff. If they're not smart enough to realize that, I'll go elsewhere.

You're lucky. You acquired a very marketable skill early on in life and it has remained useful. Probably the lion's share of people in this country don't have that sort of skill, and in economic times where hard work just isn't enough, they'll get left behind.

>That's where I disagree with the notion that the upper classes supposedly dictate how the lower classes ought to live. That only happens when the lower classes let them.

Unions are the means by which lower classes band together to have more rights at work. But you don't really believe in them, and your party believes they should be destroyed.

There was a study done recently that shows that the bottom third of society in terms of income get virtually no attention paid to them in policy setting these days. The upper classes do set the game.

Or when the upper classes start pitting groups of subordinates against each other. You see that all the time, especially in politics.

>You don't have to play their game. And that's the bottom line.

Of course I do. Most people do. That's the way it is. But I have to less that some others do, because I am part of the upper middle class. Same with you. But 95%+ people are not, and the wider the income disparity gets in this country, the less control they have because they're more desparate to take whatever scraps they can get, which is the way the tippy-top of the pyramid likes it.

-Z
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