Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Bernie u0026 AOC Give Lip Service To McDonald's Workers u0026 #FightFor$15" video.
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@steves6756 "You and only you are responsible for your plight in life . . . "
Those who lost loved ones on 9/11, in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the COVID pandemic, pediatric cancers, mass shooters, medical malpractice, rogue cops, or who were victims of Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, so-called clergy, etc., etc., etc., not to mention those who lost a chunk of savings thanks to countless frauds like Enron, or because of pension funds that invested in fraudulent CDOs and swaps before 2008, etc., all thank you for that.
I can advise you about one thing: don't try to become a real writer.
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@steves6756 How many languages do you speak that you know "the general consensus" is opposed to the obvious proposition, to anyone who doesn't have the mentality of a cult member, that "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all?"
That stuff is pretty old, and pretty much everyone in the world, cross-culturally, in various traditions and including the full-blown agnostics, have noticed it long ago.
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@steves6756 You said I was wrong because you disagree with me, and some blather about supply and demand, which presumes a free market -- which exists exactly nowhere. Adam Smith discussed in detail how a free market can be distorted (wrongly undermined, according to him, and here I agree) by the rentier class (think, feudal privileges sans titles). Adam Smith saw that issue long before the age of monopoly came along, which rendered his free market model as obsolete as the notion that the sun revolves around the earth. The basic features of modern life are all dependent on monopolies. Or, how do YOU think you get electricity, natural gas, running water, etc.?
In a free market, you could NOT impose wages low enough that full-time workers are unable to eat or find a place to live without public assistance. Your profits would be driven down by competitors who could offer workers better pay, consumers a product of indistinguishable if not better quality (it's called innovation) at roughly the same price (again, innovation), and people would then patronize those businesses (the ones with the smiling employees), and never eat at McDonald's.
But there is no free market. That's why this sequence did not happen.
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@123lowp Actually, your plan to go out on your own is a bigger incentive to your employer to give you a raise, if he wants to keep you in particular, than any skill you could demonstrate. In certain corporations, people get pushed out rather than promoted for being more skilled than their bosses. (Classic scenario in successful employment discrimination/wrongful discharge cases, though they also have to show discriminatory animus, etc., to win. Without that, or without an enforceable contract, etc., it's "just the way it goes.")
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