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Yep, typical 'conservative' thinking. There's a management failure...and it's the workers who get screwed....;-D...
by Old School on May 4th, 2009
lol!
by MyGiveaDamnsBusted on May 4th, 2009
Workers rights and all that, damn them! There was me thinking that people worked to pay their rent and feed themselves! Nope, it's so their boss can save a couple of dollars buy an even bigger SUV.
by Fashionista on May 4th, 2009
Rich people (or wanna-be-rich people) don't seem to get (or don't care) that 20 people with $50k each make for a much healthier economy than 1 guy with $1 million and 19 broke people.
by Old School on May 4th, 2009
Weak intellectual capacity, I call it. And a little thing called greed.
by Fashionista on May 4th, 2009
Why do you all seem to class any business owner as rich and greedy? Little unfair, don't ya think? It is my money and time that started the business, not my employees' money. It is my family's welfare and my financial security on the line if the business fails. Not to mention my credit and reputation.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 6th, 2009
'Why do you all seem to class any business owner as rich and greedy?'
Read your own comment again. I rest my case.
by Fashionista on May 6th, 2009
@HC - I don't classify all business owners as rich and greedy. In fact, my understanding is that about 50% of business owners are poor and broke (about 1 out of 2 small business startups fail).
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However, I have NO patience for business owners who say "I can't make my business work under existing laws, so society OWES it to me to change those laws."
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If a business' profits are dependent upon paying less than minimum wage, or illegal waste dumping, or hiding its losses in Special-Purpose Entities (e.g. Enron), then the business is not serving society's interests and has no reason to exist.
by Old School on May 6th, 2009
Hear hear.
by Fashionista on May 6th, 2009
But don't those business employ people? Give them a wage and (sometimes) benefits? How is that not serving society's needs?
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If you're a stockholder in a company, don't you want that company to be profitable? If the company makes money, don't you? Putting money in your pocket and the pocket of the other stockholders does serve the society's interest.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 7th, 2009
@HC - If I can find stupid enough customers, I can make a gazillion dollars employing people to sell sticks dipped in sewage.
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Employees would make money, investors would make money, and I'd make money.
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But I would not for one instant have served society's interest by selling sewage-dipped sticks.
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It's a common mistake. People mistake economic activity for real wealth generation. Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme was economic activity, but it generated no wealth.
by Old School on May 7th, 2009
Just because you can't really do anything with sewage dipped sticks, doesn't mean that selling them doesn't serve society's interest. Pet rocks sold. Does that mean we should take all that guy's money back because "Pet Rocks" don't fit into your idea of serving society? What if I didn't think that selling bras fitted into the idea of serving society? Who decides?
by Hardcore Conservative on May 7th, 2009
@HC - You exaggerate my position. But I think it illustrates that not all economic activity is useful to society.
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The Mafia, Ponzi schemes, selling snake oil as a cancer cure, selling soft drinks laced with cocaine, these are all economic activities that we, as a society, have decided are not in our interest to allow.
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Similarly, we as a society have decided that there has to be a floor in Capitalism's inherent race-to-the-bottom with respect to wages.
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And, for your information, the minimum wage has been significantly higher (in real dollar terms) in the past. Somehow, the economy did not collapse.
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http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html
by Old School on May 7th, 2009
And you exaggerate mine. I'm not talking about illegal financial activities. I'm talking about legitimate businesses.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 7th, 2009
I hope your business horribly fails, and you can't feed your family, then need some assistance. Then according to your logic, when you go to get help, you are denied because you are a republican. But no, the government will still be there to "bail out" your sorry ass because you wasted all your money on golden shower curtains and shit. Oh here's a bright idea, let's torture them too because they believe different than you, Mr. "I'd rather be waterboarding". What a waste of life you are.
by Anonymous on May 13th, 2009
And you're ugly.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 13th, 2009
I hope you wouldn't think i'm cute, what will the "good ole boys" club think of you then?
by Anonymous on May 13th, 2009
They would think I'm a democrat.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 13th, 2009
Yes, until you have to redeem yourself by telling them how many innocent people you gunned down and tortured overseas while you played on the golf course with your CEO buddies. But don't forget, you are a christian, just like all conservatives. Abortion = non-christian, Gay = non-christian, Killing innocent people = Christian! Torture = Christian! I now get conservative thinking, thanks!
by Anonymous on May 13th, 2009
No problem.
And by the way. I wasn't playing golf. I was the one overseas killing and torturing. Get your facts straight before you point fingers. I don't golf.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 13th, 2009
Golf is far more evil than killing and torturing people. I thought everyone knew that.... Tut tut.
by Fashionista on May 13th, 2009
Golf is torture.
by Hardcore Conservative on May 14th, 2009