Workers, CEOs and the Investor class.
Sorry if this screed rambles a bit, I am trying to connect a few moving parts.
First, the CEOs and the Investors are not different people, CEOs make their huge salaries based on how the Stock does, and the Hedge Fund Investors also own many of the companies. So we aren't talking about a different set of people.
And they make their fortunes by pushing more and more productivity out of the workers. They are overworked, over surveilled, under paid and lack the benefits they deserve. It's no wonder that when people had a break from this type of job due to COVID, they decided to not come back. They can't find enough Truck Drivers? Well maybe being monitored every mile and every minute you drive, with constant pressure to meet unrealistic goals isn't the freedom of the open road they promise.
And here's the thing about these rich fuckers. They don't care about their workers having healthcare or decent housing or a living wage. So the only for workers to get that is through government action. And a lot of that means the rich paying their share of taxes. But if there is one thing they spend there time and energy on it's stopping any increase in their taxes. They have more money than they will ever need or spend, but to pay to help the people that enable them to be so rich is the one thing they will never stop fighting.
They have built a system that gives them most of the rewards while fighting tooth and nail to deny the basic needs to those who make that money for them.
Many of these people and the business they run pay zero taxes, yet they will continue to make lowering the tax rate on the rich their #1 priority.
Our system is broken and these are the people who broke it.
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