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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. Come on. I could wish more was from the work of others, but it was ours.
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:30 PM
Apr 2022

If we'd worked smarter and saved more we'd have more, but oh well.

No to whiny, complaining grievance politics bringing out the worst in all wired to indulge.

applegrove

(132,207 posts)
2. CEOs think they have been responsible for their success but
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:36 PM
Apr 2022

forcing unions out and paying people a pittance that gives the ceo bonuses is getting success as others do the work for nothing. Try saving when you can't pay all your bills. Grrrr

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Agree with the "grrrr"! Fwiw, most CEOs are working people
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:58 PM
Apr 2022

who tend to be affluent but not genuinely wealthy. Though since imagining oneself better than others with less material accumulation is common to almost everyone, no doubt most do.

Of course, there's no way anyone could earn enormous wealth through work, but that's not the issue. If they could, the new classes WE allowed to develop would still be an existential threat to democracy and to our equality and all other rights secured under the law.

Justice Brandeis was right, Pelosi was right, and all who realize we have to undo that great danger WE have let develop are right.

There's always been only one path to stopping them: Voting Democratic to create unstoppable liberal majorities that can apply our principles. Again.

Biophilic

(6,552 posts)
4. Oh, god I love this. My hard work has elevated several people and I got lots of thanks,
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 07:08 PM
Apr 2022

but never the monetary reward and only once or twice the position raise.

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