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Originally Posted by Robbie
kane, you're talking about "wages"...so right there you're talking about worker bees.
Whole different breed there. Those people are NEVER going anywhere in life.
My grandfather told me: "Son, you'll never make any money working for somebody else". And I listened.
But IF I did...I wouldn't work for the minimum wage for very long. Again, hard work and intelligence. Just because a minimum wage is STARTING pay, doesn't mean it has to be ENDING pay.
The cream always rises. Doesn't matter if it's working for McDonalds or working for Google...the smart and hard working guy with drive & ambition will rise to the top anywhere he is at.
But he'll still be working for somebody else in the end.
The TRULY driven and ambitious people are the ones who take the risk and leave that guaranteed salary behind.
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True. Short of becoming a CEO or getting very lucky and getting in on the ground floor of a company that gives out huge stock options then goes public and makes you rich, working for someone else will never get you rich. It just doesn't work that way. I have always been someone who works hard and tries to move up. In the past when I have worked at different jobs I have been promoted quickly and often left those jobs for better ones when they didn't pay me what I thought I was worth. Most people don't have that attitude.
However, rich people need many happy worker bees in order for them to stay rich. They either need them to work for them or they need them to buy their product they are selling (or both).
If we allow the middle class to crash and burn and we end up like some third world shithole country there becomes fewer and fewer people to sell stuff to and it makes it even harder to rise to the top. As I said in an earlier post, I think the separation of wealth we have this country right now is fine. There is still a good sized middle class and there is still plenty of opportunity for those who wish to work for it.
What we must be wary of is is destroying that middle class so we become one of those countries where there are a tiny number of rich people and almost everyone else is dirty poor.