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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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Good lord, you're like Alex P Keaton. You're probably typing away with a framed picture of the second coming Ronald Reagan hanging over your work desk.
Nobody said you didn't work hard and nobody said the cream doesn't rise or any other young Republican analogy you can come up with. If you work hard and work smart you'll make a lot of money. There are definite barriers of entry but for the most part anyone in this country can still work hard and be very successful. And that's great. But that wasn't what this thread was even about.
It's about the widening gap of income inequality in this country and is it bad for the economy. And yes, it is very bad. You need a strong middle class and working class to have a sustainable prosperous economy. YOU need the middle class to purchase memberships to CM. You can have the greatest work ethic in the world but if your customer base doesn't have any expendable income you're fucked.
I will never understand why people vote (and in this case preach) against their own interests. From your previous posts I can assume you do well, but I can also infer that you are not in the top tenth of 1%. It only benefits you if that top % pays a higher capital gains tax and in turn the middle class gets a tax break. It only benefits you if the minimum wage is increased and the working poor have more disposable income. They buy your products and services.