Yeah, but he personally didn't give you a job, somebody waaayyyy down the chain in the corporation he created did the job giving - as Walmart has been publicly traded since 1970 it's not actually been 'owned' by a human in 45+ years :)
This idea that there are achievers and everybody else is, to be honest, kinda rubbish. It smacks of an attitude that most people are just millionaires who've just hit on hard times recently. The reality is the vast majority of people could work their asses off and never be actually rich. Socialism (as it is actually practiced in most of the world, rather than the fantasy version where it's indistinguishable from North Korea Communism) just recognizes that reality.
In the current paradigm I have a serious fucking problem with the idea that a person could work two full time jobs and not be able to afford to live(*). I have a really serious problem that entry level staff, and some above, at Walmart (for example) need government (i.e. my fucking taxes) handouts to make ends meet.
Looking forward a couple of decades I am curious about what we do when the current 'make work' jobs are largely automated too. At some point we have to accept that the current capitalist model basically doesn't work in a world of increasing automation and AI.
We currently make something like 4 times the median household income, and that's with me underpaying myself while the company grows - prior to running my own business it was something like 6-8 times depending on the bonus payments... I'm going to get a really good tax cut from the Trump Administration, people richer than me will get a lot more... Thing is. I don't really need it and the charities we support aren't going to do much for the poor bastards living in the deep red states who are about to have a crash course in the economic realities of trickle down.
Frankly, I suppose I should just sit back and enjoy that the company is doing ok and we're in a hot space. The thing is, I don't want to have to enjoy what wealth I generate in the next few years behind the walls of a safe zone in some kind of SF dystopia.
(*) - afford a place to live, an education, healthcare, retirement etc...
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Date: 2016-12-13 09:24 pm (UTC)This idea that there are achievers and everybody else is, to be honest, kinda rubbish. It smacks of an attitude that most people are just millionaires who've just hit on hard times recently. The reality is the vast majority of people could work their asses off and never be actually rich. Socialism (as it is actually practiced in most of the world, rather than the fantasy version where it's indistinguishable from North Korea Communism) just recognizes that reality.
In the current paradigm I have a serious fucking problem with the idea that a person could work two full time jobs and not be able to afford to live(*). I have a really serious problem that entry level staff, and some above, at Walmart (for example) need government (i.e. my fucking taxes) handouts to make ends meet.
Looking forward a couple of decades I am curious about what we do when the current 'make work' jobs are largely automated too. At some point we have to accept that the current capitalist model basically doesn't work in a world of increasing automation and AI.
We currently make something like 4 times the median household income, and that's with me underpaying myself while the company grows - prior to running my own business it was something like 6-8 times depending on the bonus payments... I'm going to get a really good tax cut from the Trump Administration, people richer than me will get a lot more... Thing is. I don't really need it and the charities we support aren't going to do much for the poor bastards living in the deep red states who are about to have a crash course in the economic realities of trickle down.
Frankly, I suppose I should just sit back and enjoy that the company is doing ok and we're in a hot space. The thing is, I don't want to have to enjoy what wealth I generate in the next few years behind the walls of a safe zone in some kind of SF dystopia.
(*) - afford a place to live, an education, healthcare, retirement etc...