Hi On Monday 27 July 2009 at 9:59:48 AM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Simon wrote:
> I have absolutely no argument there. I completely agree > that 'a workman is worthy of his hire', to steal from > an old religious book. People are criminally > undervalued, vastly overworked, and grossly underpaid, > that's how capitalism works. Only by a narrow model of capitalism driven solely by naked greed. What about the early capitalist philanthropists who provided homes and welfare for their employees? This is often no longer possible thanks to the reprehensible invention called a plc, where the profits are distributed among shareholders who do absolutely nothing to deserve having the wealth siphoned from the communities that created it into their fat, deep pockets. > [...] I don't believe that > it inevitably leads to nobody valuing what anybody > does, rather it makes those with less money in their > pockets fight much harder to get the services and > 'things' cheaper, so that they can afford them. Which drives still more people to be paid far below the worth of their efforts and adds to the momentum of the downward spiral. > I heard someone say that if there weren't poor people > then the world would be a better place. The person > saying it was a businessman running a factory with over > 300 workers who had just gone on strike because of work > conditions and low wage complaints. You're either on > one side or the other in this world! I would guess he was more the greedy, selfish type rather than any sort of philanthropist. (-; -- Best regards, MFPA Was time invented by an Irishman named O'Clock? Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
