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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 01:35 PM Original message |
The middle class have to work harder for their money, than the rich do. |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. That's a fact |
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juajen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I have to agree. I have seen hard work and worked sometimes |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. i recently saw some website with a tribute to the "American work ethic" |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. They must have meant "other people's hard work". nt |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. i think this somewhat misses the real issue, because rich people often do work hard |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. "work on their way home" ? Like push a button on your blackberry? |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 03:24 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. don't be silly. there's a ton of real work done sitting in a cubicle on a computer these days. |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. +1 n/t |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. I think the bigger point is that the rich can't provide a stable future for |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. agreed. my theory is that all income has a deserved and undeserved component |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yet you can't retire if you don't invest enough to make others labor support you |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. well, technically, yes; but it's in return for having supported retirees while you were working. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
7. i think this misses the real issue; rich people often do work hard. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 03:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. They have figured out how to take a cut from all the people who work for them. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. exactly. our system has evolved with upward skim |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. And where there used to be more corporations that were spread |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
8. that isn't always true, but it can be |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. And the poor have to work even harder. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
15. That is why we are serfs and they are barons and dukes. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
18. Work Hard? OMG. I'm making less now than I did in 1975. |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
21. It really depends. Hours and effort vary at all income levels |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
22. And that's the core of the problem. |
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