Dear Millennials: Your Love of Socialism Could be America’s Downfall…

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Dude653

Dude653

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, capitalism is what allows corporations like Walmart to pay their employees practically nothing so they have to rely on government assistance, costing taxpayers Millions per year. Meanwhile they get richer and richer.
 
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Persuaded

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TheAristocat said:
Option 2 had nothing to do with helping the economy. Option 1 and 2, if you note carefully, were put in place to protect employees. Because let's be honest, companies view their employees like a farmer views his cows. How much milk can they produce to line my pocket with green? And he doesn't care how hard they have to work, how much of their dreams or their family life they have to sacrifice to do it. Without someone to keep companies in check - whether that be unions or the government - we'd have repeats of our past (which I'd hoped we should have learned from by now) where the company sends a free turkey to a worker's family after the worker died in an accident or requires children to work 12-hour days. While it's good to labor for what you eat, humans are more than just companies' puppets. And many of them would like a happy balance between their work life dedicated to someone else's interests and their work life dedicated to the pursuit of their own hobbies and dreams.

But by all means, if you wish to work 2-3x as hard as us normal human beings in order to earn 2-3x as much, go for it. I just wouldn't advocate overtime to allow you to do so, because there are plenty of Americans out there who are seeking jobs like yours but can't find them because the companies already have "enough" employees to do the work (typically those that work so hard they hardly spend any time with their families, some of them having heart attacks from prolonged high blood pressure and dying).

And I noticed someone else said to tax overseas assets heavily. While this wouldn't work because the company would completely rebase itself overseas (i.e. become a foreign company - like Burger King when it became Canadian - instead of an overseas American one), they are on the right track. I would add that taxes on incoming foreign goods would be preferable while giving breaks to American companies. We need to offer them incentives for staying within the country, for staying American, and for hiring more employees.

Essentially what I'm saying is: companies are our friends. We need to help them, but we also need to be aware that they would abuse their workers at the drop of a hat if allowed, so we need to put some regulations in check to prevent this. One of these regulations should be on overtime. It doesn't have to be the example I gave, but if it encourages them to reduce the amount of workers who work overtime and hire on more employees to make up the remaining man-hours, then it would be a God-send.
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Did you misread my post or do you not understand productivity?
Productivity misures how much work your do in any given time.
I did not say to work 2 or 3 times more hours, I said produce 2 or 3 times more for each hour worked.
If I load 60 boxes on a truck in an hour and Joe loads 30, shouldn't I be paid twice as much as Joe?
Of course that is not allowed if we work under a union contract or where everyone is paid equally.
 
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coby2

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Love of socialism is not the root of all evil, love of money is.
 
p_rehbein

p_rehbein

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Spoonfulofsugar said:
I am NOT a troll! If you are implying that I am this tres person I am not!
Do you roam the halls accusing people?:confused:
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They probably were not referring to you. Lately, when one clicks on Reply With Quote, and there are a couple of comments included.......the thing will mess up......it's happened to me a couple of times in the last couple of weeks.
 
Utah

Utah

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coby2 said:
Love of socialism is not the root of all evil, love of money is.
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Socialists in charge have God complexes. That's blasphemy and its worse than love of money.
 
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Kisses1990

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Gene Simmons once said that the root of all evil isn't money, it's the LACK of money. You never see millionaires trying to rob liquor stores. But people do a lot of bad things for money when they don't have enough of it.
 
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KimPetras

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Kisses1990 said:
Gene Simmons once said that the root of all evil isn't money, it's the LACK of money. You never see millionaires trying to rob liquor stores. But people do a lot of bad things for money when they don't have enough of it.
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To be fair, many high SES people commit crimes, just a different type of crime (white collar). Look at Martha Stewart for example... or any other person who hires illegal immigrants, cons people with a fake university, pretends to hate eminent domain but uses it more than they use their bible... etc.
 
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