Corporate Greed - OWS

Everybody knows a worthless fuck. That does not change the fact that millions should not be working 60 hours per week to barely scrape by with no health care when they can find a job.

Once the workforce went global, the US was doomed.

We need to manufacturer more? Manufacture more of what? Even if you come up with a great new product, it will be cheaper to manufacture it elsewhere anyway.

And to say that the US worker makes too much to compete globally seems to have come down to 2 choices - 1) don't work or 2) work for much less.

The answer seems to be, in order to compete nowadays, the US is supposed to drop down to 3rd world nation standards - low wages, no unions, no bargaining rights, longer hours, less benefits, less environmental protections, etc.

If Steve Jobs amassed $30 billion dollars selling shit that was made for pennies in China, and he didn't want to hire more Americans, is he really a success story, or just a leach?

Same question can be asked of most of today's most successful CEOs.

I've said it time and again: I would rater be a Prince in a rich nation, than a King in a land of squaller.

China has been working on long-term energy solutions, like what Jimmy Carter was trying to do, but the corporate greed here has stifled progress (especially big oil), and now we are paying the price.

since you're neither, what are you trying to say?

I am saying that, those of you who seem to believe it doesn't matter what happens to those around you, are blind to the fact that it most certainly DOES matter.

You will not sell a site membership to the under and unemployed for example, so the health of the entire society eventually effects all of us.

If you are rich and everyone around you is poor, your own quality of life will dwindle.

economy runs in cycles.
learn some history.
pretending this is some sort of crisis that will cause massive changes in society is silly.

Well said.

Abit like being a Saddamn or Gaddaffi.

I love that a random anonymous guy can hold up a sign and it's just assumed to be fact. For all you know it's Rush Limbaughs intern making fun of ows

I learned many years ago,there is no point in worrying about things you have no control over.
And you have no control on what the neighbor does.

That Depends on where you live, and then why not raise Min Wage to above $12 if this is the case. Many Mid west states, can get by on min wage. Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and so on, the cost of living is Cheap!

Ok, I largely agree with you that companies are in business to make money and that's great. But what is described in this jpeg is borderline criminal. Unfair is one thing, but these CEO's are swine, and basically raping the system, to detriment of others who didn't start life at third base. In this case, the employees are not family that a company should take care of and cherish. They're just a plaything or pawn to make sure the "club" gets paid ridiculously.

This tells me this is a guy who had no plan B.


Reminds me of a quote I once read somewhere...


"No matter how goodly your employment may be, no matter how solid may it seem, get ye a backup plan, grow and nurture it, lest ye risk revealing yourself a dumbass on the interwebs like the above poor schmuck" ~ Unknown.


Words to live by, and in fact I've lived by them for nearly all of my working life.

Germany has been very successful by manufacturing high end, high quality products and items that no one else manufacturers.

Exactly. I got my first degree just before joining adult.com and haven't been in my field of study..EVER! They preferred experience over an expensive education with honors.

I'm surprised there aren't a lot more workplace shootouts.

Nobody has a workplace to go shoot up anymore.