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Post by aussieinusa on Nov 16, 2013 11:11:52 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 14:11:29 GMT 7
Yes its going to keep getting worse until 10%-20% of the population has all the countries wealth and has everything while the other 80% has nothing and works for third world wages basically as their slaves. As gina reihart said aussie workers are lazy an should work like African slave labour at $2 per day. WE are seeing the end of full time jobs with decent wages and conditions replaced with low paid casual jobs. Hockey said he wants an Asian style economy in Australia with little or no welfare system. The Labor party isn't much better then the liberals these days. |
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Post by aussieinusa on Nov 16, 2013 17:04:31 GMT 7
Yes, there is definitely an attitude amongst our country's rich and very rich that they DESERVE even more, and have no problem with taking it from people far less fortunate than themselves. Disgraceful.
But then I did make the terrible life decision of not being born Lang Hancock's daughter. Of course I should pay for that by giving the one person who did make the good life decision of being his daughter what little money I have, so that her Scrooge McDuck-style swimming pool of money can have a few more drops added to it, right? Can't go rewarding my bad life decision by letting me have a few table scraps from the truly deserving.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 11:54:48 GMT 7
Yes, there is definitely an attitude amongst our country's rich and very rich that they DESERVE even more, and have no problem with taking it from people far less fortunate than themselves. Disgraceful. But then I did make the terrible life decision of not being born Lang Hancock's daughter. Of course I should pay for that by giving the one person who did make the good life decision of being his daughter what little money I have, so that her Scrooge McDuck-style swimming pool of money can have a few more drops added to it, right? Can't go rewarding my bad life decision by letting me have a few table scraps from the truly deserving. Yes the wealthy think they are wealthy because they deserve to be wealthy and people who are poor deserve to be because they are lazy or made bad life choices and if they get off their backsides and work hard they can be wealthy also. They say if you start off stacking shelves and woolworths you can eventually end up being CEO of Woolworths earning millions. Which is a total load of bull. |
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Post by aussieinusa on Nov 17, 2013 12:42:42 GMT 7
Yes, because Woolworths employs just as many CEOs as it does night-fill staff, so every single one of those box-carrying people can move up to the multi-million dollar salary if they just work hard and hang in there!
Oh, hang on...
There isn't much room at the very top, and I actually don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is how huge the gap between rich and poor has become; poor people missing out on the basics while rich people buy 747s to jet around in; rich people opposing a living wage for average workers so they can give themselves bigger bonuses; and that the biggest predictor of where you'll end up is who your parents were.
If Gina Reinhart had started where I did -- child of single mother who was on-and-off welfare the whole time -- and amassed her fortune from zero, I'd have a lot more respect for her... and her attitudes would be very different. As it is, she started life near the top of the heap, had a nice tight (family-supplied) safety net to keep her from falling downwards at all, and she's now at the very top.
Climbing Everest isn't such a great achievement when you started 100m from the top. It's still tough climbing and hard work... but you're much more likely to get there than if you started at sea level (or worse, underwater).
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