Hi Platt & all, [I said earlier] if we don't trust the government we can > vote them > > out. Not a perfect or speedy solution, but better than nothing. We > have > > no > > power over rapacious corporations.
[Platt replied] > Sure we do. We don't have to buy products from corporations we don't > trust. But we do have to work for them. Maybe I can't afford or don't want to move. Maybe I can't find a job in my field anywhere else. Maybe I can't find a job doing anything anywhere else. Maybe I can't afford to be without health insurance. Maybe I am too old to be looking for a new job because I would cause a new employer's health insurance costs to go up. Etc. Maybe it would be better if there were a few laws with teeth regulating how corporations could conduct business with respect to their customers, the environment, and their employees. Maybe it would be better to not be at the mercy of the judgment of a distant board of directors we do not know, will never meet, and who have no idea what and how much their employees actually do every day. Maybe it would be better if corporations had a legal obligation to treat their employees with fairness, and we had recourse if they did not. Maybe it would be better not to think about the Catch-22 a white-collar "exempt" (meaning exempt from the labor laws for benefit of you non-Americans) finds himself in, be grateful to not be among the mass of the unemployed, and just get over it. ;) Cheerfully getting over it, Mary Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
