Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "The Whole American Workforce Needs to Hear This Right Now" video.

  1. ALL LABOR MUST STAND UP TOGETHER- WHITE COLOR BLUE COLLAR PINK COLLAR IT DOESN'T MATTER WE NEED TO STAND UP AMD WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO! NO MORE BAD DEALS!!!! THE CORPORATE OWNERSHIP CLASS DOESN'T GIVE AN F ABOUT US THEY'RE ALLIED AGAINST US EVEN THOUGH THEY NEED US, SO THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS STAND TOGETHER! LABOR TODAY, LABOR TOGETHER 👊 Good for auto workers, come on #railworkers you need to do the same!!
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  2. We just need more laws and that's a fact. I think personal wealth should not be allowed to exceed 150M no exceptions.
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  3.  @JeffreyGreeb  of course. Better labor laws would stop this.
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  4.  @InventorZahran  lol I did not know that but now I do. Indeed.
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  5. Great for them. We just need better labor laws. Our laws are shite. Here's someplace to start. $45-50 minimum wage for skilled labor $25 for unskilled $18 for small business (cutoff at 50 people) 40% minimum profit share dividend in companies over 100 persons 50% for companies over 200 persons (shareholders and ownership can take the rest, if not shareholders than I would say 65%, that still leaves 35% for ownership which is a huge chunk of profit) OT starts at hour 33. 32 hr workweek. People have a right to have a life. If someone wants to work 70+ hours a week that is their prerogative but they shouldn't HAVE to to either keep their job or to survive. Collective bargaining protections, reps on governing board reqs. sick days, paid and unpaid. Paid family leave six mos minimum, plus six mos unpaid, 12 mos total, male or female, for companies over 75 persons.
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  6.  @JeffreyGreeb  all we need our strong minimums and firm maximums for everyone. Maxes on top pay, minimum for entry level, profit share guarantees for all, etc. Quantify everything under law, fairly, then everyone knows what range they'll be working with based on their position. It's easier said than done but until we do this we're going to be stuck in the same purgatory of constantly having to fight the same flights over again.
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  7.  @siobahnhurley85  well that's not entirely true, there were millionaires but I don't think there were any billionaires yet. Not sure when the first billionaire was created but I'm sure a quick Wikipedia search could tell me; but both parties are full of people that serve themselves and the elite now. In truth, elite big money interests have always pretty much pulled the strings of the political structure here. There have been some notable exceptions along the way, but this is/was generally true. Even local government in major and medium tier cities are run now and usually have been run by heartless self-serving money-seeking elitists who serve developers and big real estate and keep funding their local PDs and local lockup generously while working-class communities struggle, who utterly refuse to do local rent control (because in most cases they're taking bribes and payoffs from the local corporate landlord class), who hate the homeless and pretty much want them all to go away and die quietly out of sight. As a far-left communist-lite civil libertarian, who now sees the idiocy of the red-blue game, I'm far beyond it all now. They are two sides of the same coin. To think there's any such thing as good Democrat today I feel is delusional. That hasn't been true for a long long time. Yes Bernie is a good man but he's also weak, and he's getting old and needs to rest. And so on. There might be some individual nice Dems but they can't do much good from where they're at, and most of them propose such weak tea neoliberal policies that even if they were passed, which they won't be, wouldn't change much. One party is insane yes and that's the GOP but both parties are in it for themselves by serving elite big money interests. That's what they're there for and they take their orders from their party boss who takes it from whoever pays them, the big money. They're not in it to do good, there in it to make money and they and they do, via favors, outright bribes, insider stock tips and the like. It's a fantastic system for those who are unconcerned about anyone welfare. You look out for yourself, and everyone else is on their own. You may talk the talk of helping the little guy on the campaign trail but of course you don't mean it. The Dems are hardly much better. They're corporate servants too. I mean they're basically just an interest group for Wall Street and continued militancy abroad. There are competing no people's parties, aka socialists or communists or Labor-first parties, we would have to try to build them up again. Unless somebody is already wealthy they should not be voting for either the red or the blue team, because there is nothing in the party agenda for any ordinary person, absolutely nothing. All they have is a hundred years of excuses why they can't give the rest of us a better deal. I think sooner or later we have to stop being Charlie Brown with the football. Besides, so long as we have other people making decisions for us, esp corrupt politicians, these problems aren't going to change. Only direct voting on all policies AKA public referendums do that and even then that's no guarantee but it's better than the current alternative imo. At least then we all get a direct vote,, but they don't want that because then there would be some control on corporate greed and we can't have that. We could easily revamp our tax system to supply plenty of funding for public needs in perpetuity, but not if our political class is a criminal rogues' gallery proudly in the pocket of 0.1% interests. Same for other issues.
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