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Sirveri

(4,517 posts)
29. you're in the catch 22.
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 09:00 PM
Apr 2013

If you're truly rich, monetarily, you don't need to work, so you invest your wealth to generate more wealth. The rest of us do not have the liberty, and thus we have a fundamental disconnect, we're forced to provide labor for less than it's worth because we require the income for our very survival. In this way it is quite difficult for us because the rich have all the leverage in the employee-employer relationship. An interesting thing about taking the money from the rich, is that all their money ultimately came from the poor. They pay their employees less than the labor they provided, and pocketed the difference as the 'profit margin'. So by taking money from the rich you're ultimately taking money from the poor anyways. And since they always make more than they spend, the more you charge the more they must extract from their business. Like I said, catch 22. You're always taking money from the poor, because everyone takes money from those who labor, the rich more so than others. What's really funny is that the money you spend that they give you goes right back to them eventually. The solution might be to simply remove them from the equation, however most can't afford to do that because we require them to sustain ourselves. Hence we're stuck, waiting for our silver spoon traitor to come and rescue us from our precarious predicament.

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THe 1% Continue The Domination And Are Consolidating Their Gains cantbeserious Apr 2013 #1
i think it's becoming a contagion. xchrom Apr 2013 #2
Probably True - With The Power The 1% Holds - Does It Matter? - Probably Not cantbeserious Apr 2013 #4
tue dat. nt xchrom Apr 2013 #5
They know exactly what they are doing. pangaia Apr 2013 #18
They're looking for places to run Warpy Apr 2013 #26
The world is becoming a plutocracy: Wealthy/serfs Faygo Kid Apr 2013 #17
Just a matter of time before this turns violent. Katashi_itto Apr 2013 #3
Agree, chervilant Apr 2013 #9
No kidding. jsr Apr 2013 #11
Except, of course, for the Basque region, where their economy is doing relatively well, or growing. jtuck004 Apr 2013 #6
i was aware the basque region was doing better than the rest of spain. xchrom Apr 2013 #7
What I find fascinating, and scary, is nearly the entire U.S. acting like victims of Stockholm jtuck004 Apr 2013 #8
I for one am taking money from the rich. Cleita Apr 2013 #12
You're not taking their money when you work for them. Sirveri Apr 2013 #24
If I have to work, and I do, I think it's better to take money from them in the Cleita Apr 2013 #25
you're in the catch 22. Sirveri Apr 2013 #29
I don't find that so much as resignation. Warpy Apr 2013 #27
I used to think that, but the more I looked at it, I realized that resignation requires jtuck004 Apr 2013 #30
That's where the Mondragon (sp?) co-operative is located isn't it? socialist_n_TN Apr 2013 #20
I think it probably has quite a lot to do with it. It's no bed of roses, but they are doing jtuck004 Apr 2013 #23
K & R malaise Apr 2013 #10
k/r marmar Apr 2013 #13
I have to confess that I have absolutely no idea of how to interpret that first chart Orrex Apr 2013 #14
The length of the entire bar is the unemployment rate - the different colors and their lengths... reformist2 Apr 2013 #15
I thought that might be the case, but... Orrex Apr 2013 #16
It does make it hard - when it comes to graphs, sometimes less is more. reformist2 Apr 2013 #19
I know that revolution is a hard and uncertain road........ socialist_n_TN Apr 2013 #21
Timeline toddwv Apr 2013 #22
I just came back from Spain and Bay Boy Apr 2013 #28
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