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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Food Workers Photograph What Life Is Like When You Make Less Than $15 an Hour [View all]daleanime
(17,796 posts)11. It's depressing how true that is.....
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Fast-Food Workers Photograph What Life Is Like When You Make Less Than $15 an Hour [View all]
Agschmid
May 2015
OP
Probably never going to have kids, so for me personally it wasn't challenging...
Agschmid
May 2015
#10
The rich psychopaths think of us as nonhuman and expendable. The rich suck...........
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#14
We are nothing but lifetimes to be harvested 'till we can't produce any more assets.
NBachers
May 2015
#21
We are more than that. They, the-rich-abusive-controller-bullies, have us believing we are worthless
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#28
We need a communist revolution. It happened in Russia in 1917, France in 1789, and England in 1649.
MillennialDem
May 2015
#43
We need a revolution of equality, justice, respect and uplift for all, not some political ideology.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#45
Sadly for most, that word comes with a twisted bastardized negative alternate meaning.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#60
Not a lot of people think that way and your view of the rich is way off
taught_me_patience
May 2015
#59
The system with which this world functions was created by the rich ruling elite.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#63
True, except republicans have to use tweezers and a magnifying glass. (nm)
Elwood P Dowd
May 2015
#24
Oh, but they just need to "work harder and develop more marketable skills."
Lizzie Poppet
May 2015
#30
If one opposes Government Programs like SNAP, Medicare, and other programs for the poor....
LynneSin
May 2015
#33
This shouldn't be happening in America but will continue unless we make some drastic
rhett o rick
May 2015
#35
This is also the result of the Democratic Party failing to protect the people from the oligarchs
AZ Progressive
May 2015
#37
Sadly some people want life to be easy so they think that Republcons are bad
rhett o rick
May 2015
#38
I don't entirely agree. Capitalism and it's innate quest for power will also kill the wealthy.
rhett o rick
May 2015
#53
The problem is that capitalism will grow to the point that it self destructs.
rhett o rick
May 2015
#52
I'm not convinced it would. Bear in mind I mean classic Adam Smith Capitalism.
raouldukelives
May 2015
#71
I don't think Adam Smith could recognize how greed would ruin his capitalism. I support controling
rhett o rick
May 2015
#72
As he imagined it, it was. But what you say is certainly true. Greed rewrote the rules.
raouldukelives
May 2015
#81
You mean if they raise the pitchers mound is it still baseball? I am afraid so. nm
rhett o rick
May 2015
#82
Sort of. More like chess where you aren't allowed to put your opponents king in check.
raouldukelives
May 2015
#83
Serious Question: If thats the case, wouldn't inequality still exsist, just at different salaries?
Joe the Revelator
May 2015
#87
Look at that refrigerator! With amenities like that, our poor truly are the envy of the world!
Ed Suspicious
May 2015
#69