Reply #105: Jesus, have you people drunk the Kool-Aid or what?! [View All]

[primavera]

Would you listen to yourselves, people?! You're all up in arms squabbling over whether someone might devote five minutes of their day to an activity that doesn't maximize the profits of parasitic employers who do no work at all other than to sit around sipping mai tais on their verandas and waiting for the checks to come rolling in!

You're all acting like somehow it's this great priviledge to do all of the work and collect a miniscule percentage of the proceeds of your labors. Wake up! It's you who are doing your employers the favor: without you, they might actually have to work for a living - perish the thought! For God's sake, it's not your mission in life to make other people obscenely rich at your expense; it's to live a decent, balanced life, which surely includes earning a living, but let's not forget it's about ensuring your own quality of life. Your not philanthropists for the wealthy - they don't need philanthropists, they're doing quite well already, thank you very much. Indeed, they are evidently doing so well that they have brainwashed their serfs into truly believing that they don't even deserve a few paltry minutes out of their ever-lengthening work days for ever-reducing pay to do someting other than make their employers even more money! Now that's life on easy street if ever I heard it!

I don't think I've ever seen such dramatic evidence of the effects of this country's prosecution of labor unions and their correspondingly diminished role in the labor market. In Europe, where unions are not persecuted for trying to represent the interest of workers, workers make more money, get better working conditions, longer vacations, and yes, more breaks, and for good reason because breaks are a natural thing for people to want and it is entirely appropriate that they should get them. Here, not only are we evidently willing to accept conditions under which the time we spend in the bathroom is electronically surveilled, tabulated, and held against us, we're actually willing to lash out at other workers who stand up for decent, humane working conditions as they would be unfairly receiving something the rest of us don't. Hello? Take a clue here, people, maybe you too should be walking out on your employers and demanding a little basic human dignity. Think about it!