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TheMastersNemesis

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11. I Only Make The Reference I Made In The Economic Sense And As A Metaphor --
Sun Oct 19, 2014, 11:35 PM
Oct 2014

for how workers and employees seem to be looked at today. In 1980 the social contract between worker and employer was destroyed. From that time on the employer was given all the advantages and employees were reduced to chattel. Today the idea of employee or worker is even more denigrated. You are lucky to be called even an associate now.

As workers are moved into a "contracted" world where they have no rights and no world, they will not even be recognized as even existing. Corporations are dedicated to an "employee" free institution. The writing is on the wall as we see more and more employees being classified as contractors. All you have to do is look around.

The decline of the worker has been deliberate and planned. In looking at this campaign it is amazing that GOPPERS are openly saying we need no minimum wages, unions should be gone, labor laws are too oppressive etc etc. EVERY SINGLE GAIN that workers have made since 1900 are under direct and open attack. Yet scores of workers will vote to really enslave themselves further.

Economically very few workers will survive economically without the same social contract their fathers and grandfathers had.
I keep saying this multiple job CRAP IS BULLSHIT AND A LIE AND ECONOMIC SUICIDE.

When workers now look for work it is not a search it is BEGGING for any job any level. And it is particularly true if you are an older worker.

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We are already seeing this in the housing market. Renting is becoming the norm CK_John Oct 2014 #1
The term Job Gypsy is not only an offensive term, it is a racist term. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #2
Adjunct faculty in academia have long been referred to as 'Gypsy Scholars'. Until KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #12
Bigotry is easy to spot, if a race of people are spoken of in a demeaning way, there bigotry is. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #22
it's already here, try getting a decent job after 50 . . . brush Oct 2014 #3
Just to be clear, not all the Boomers bought the bullshit Fumesucker Oct 2014 #4
I'd suggest "Job Okie" as an alternative, or "Job Joad" or "Job Serf". n/t. Ken Burch Oct 2014 #6
Well I've been self unemployed for years Fumesucker Oct 2014 #10
Migrant workers...nt Jesus Malverde Oct 2014 #19
Of course it is...but that's by design. This model wasn't created to HELP workers. Ken Burch Oct 2014 #5
The Term I Used Was Not Meant To Be A Slur TheMastersNemesis Oct 2014 #7
I wasn't after you about using that term, Nemesis, the term sounds Frank "Luntzian". Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #23
Yep Cal Carpenter Oct 2014 #8
I Only Make The Reference I Made In The Economic Sense And As A Metaphor -- TheMastersNemesis Oct 2014 #11
+++++++ marions ghost Oct 2014 #17
Try getting gainful employment... DAMANgoldberg Oct 2014 #9
Unfortunately Your Predicament Is Understandable And Was Predictable. TheMastersNemesis Oct 2014 #13
47 here and I share your misery. Efilroft Sul Oct 2014 #14
Parts is parts. Octafish Oct 2014 #15
The New Business Model Is Like A Hidden Deadly Disease Whose Effects Are Seen Too Late. TheMastersNemesis Oct 2014 #21
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda -- The Attack on Democracy Octafish Oct 2014 #24
Maria Galardin's TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) Radio: is great. bananas Oct 2014 #25
Those of us of a certain age can remember "Kelly Girls" SoCalDem Oct 2014 #16
good point marions ghost Oct 2014 #18
I for one am doing ok as one. It's not for everyone sure whatthehey Oct 2014 #20
This may be ok if you don't have children in school peacebird Oct 2014 #26
What do you do for a living? nt LiberalElite Oct 2014 #27
May I ask if you have children? Throd Oct 2014 #28
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