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In the discussion thread: Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]

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Mon Jan 23, 2012, 09:08 PM

valerief (35,676 posts)

143. No, it's the top half percent with all the money. nt

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152 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]	glowing	Jan 2012	OP
So rich people can be richer and buy islands and jets and armies. nt	valerief	Jan 2012	#1
Probably, because with time, we wouldn't allow psychopath's like Mitt Romney the	glowing	Jan 2012	#3
BINGO.	snagglepuss	Jan 2012	#5
You know, the Pres of our company eats lunch with us	blueamy66	Jan 2012	#73
Put the top 20% to work at manual labor	FrodosPet	Jan 2012	#120
Really? Really? Really?	guardian	Jan 2012	#133
The top 20% own 80%	FrodosPet	Jan 2012	#142
So given my example	guardian	Jan 2012	#147
Really?	joeglow3	Jan 2012	#149
No, it's the top half percent with all the money. nt	valerief	Jan 2012	#143
It seems like the ACTUAL hard workers get paid shit while the paper pushers get million $$$ bonuses.	FarLeftFist	Jan 2012	#2
Reminds me of this:	PassingFair	Jan 2012	#14
Who should we reward hard workers?	Saving Hawaii	Jan 2012	#48
Yes, hard workers. You know, the one's with the ACTUAL SKILLS to produce. The CEO is useless.	FarLeftFist	Jan 2012	#63
the paper pushers get million $$$ bonuses.	AlbertCat	Jan 2012	#78
More and more of the 99% are asking themselves these things	lunatica	Jan 2012	#4
Thank God.. I'm tired of a Job Defining me.	glowing	Jan 2012	#7
I am with you	Lifelong Protester	Jan 2012	#98
The working folk have to emulate the rich's work ethic so that they too can be rich.	Fuzz	Jan 2012	#6
If that were true, we wouldn't have a decent human being living...	glowing	Jan 2012	#12
Why do you hate America? Ripping people off and stabbing them in the back is the	Fuzz	Jan 2012	#16
lol	glowing	Jan 2012	#17
HA! I am amazed at how many non-rich people buy into that bullshit, never realizing that the	SammyWinstonJack	Jan 2012	#75
"Hard work is good for you." Usually said by rich people who don't work.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Jan 2012	#8
I don't have that many years in yet, but I too am finding the "hard work"	glowing	Jan 2012	#15
Yeah, I remember hearing a talk	Lydia Leftcoast	Jan 2012	#31
SLAVE OWNERS????	AlbertCat	Jan 2012	#81
Serious difference between complaining about the help and complaining about lazy slaves.	intheflow	Jan 2012	#86
The vast majority of the population got along with one servant or none	Lydia Leftcoast	Jan 2012	#87
Going into Civil War literacy rate among White Northern Males was estimated around 98%!	ieoeja	Jan 2012	#125
du rec. nt	xchrom	Jan 2012	#9
It's part of the overall plan. You have less time and energy to	PA Democrat	Jan 2012	#10
Bingo.	Populist_Prole	Jan 2012	#28
We just have to remind them, then	EC	Jan 2012	#11
Apparently the sorts of things NORMAL people consider actual work	kestrel91316	Jan 2012	#13
It's important work, you know.	AlbertCat	Jan 2012	#82
So that Arab oil can keep on pumping PetroDollars.	DU2012	Jan 2012	#18
Well, if you don't, the soshulists win. Or something.	HughBeaumont	Jan 2012	#19
Your rant reminds me of the promises we were told when I was young.	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2012	#20
I want my flying car.	BiggJawn	Jan 2012	#27
Exactly, which is why the US is the most productive country	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2012	#29
If the republicans hadn't stolen the election	B Calm	Jan 2012	#33
When does the world rebel against this?	Zalatix	Jan 2012	#46
Rebel against what?	The2ndWheel	Jan 2012	#67
Actually, most of the industrialize world doesn't have this problem,	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2012	#136
I guess Americans will rebel when the economy collapses.	Zalatix	Jan 2012	#137
We will see.	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2012	#140
I remember the promise that technology would give us more time.	airplaneman	Jan 2012	#51
That reminds me of another thing from the past...	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2012	#134
Because the pie is only so large and the official state secular religion that a few have	TheKentuckian	Jan 2012	#21
see Ted Rall's "Revenge of the Latch-key kids"	hfojvt	Jan 2012	#22
61 yrs old and working 60+ hrs a week	B Calm	Jan 2012	#23
Im 57 and work 2 jobs totaling 70+ hour a week.	airplaneman	Jan 2012	#52
I'm sick of it too - and the harder we work it seems, the less our pay increases.	Initech	Jan 2012	#24
And our pay is being reduced	socialindependocrat	Jan 2012	#25
K&R	treestar	Jan 2012	#26
It's particularly galling when you remember back to the late 1970s	Remember Me	Jan 2012	#30
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work	NNN0LHI	Jan 2012	#32
I know several people who have had jobs eliminated where they work,	woo me with science	Jan 2012	#34
Because we want so much stuff	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#35
That's silly - who can afford anything these days.	TBF	Jan 2012	#38
Lot's of people	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#40
Top 10% - what about the other 90%	TBF	Jan 2012	#42
That's great. Too bad it has nothing to do	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#43
Your "conversation" is a right-wing meme that has nothing to do with the OP	TBF	Jan 2012	#69
It's not a red herring	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#71
It is not Americans who demand "stuff" - it is capitalism that overproduces and creates this culture	TBF	Jan 2012	#76
Oh Bull	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#79
That's fine because I'm not buying	TBF	Jan 2012	#89
You are welcome to my debt	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#92
Your last line gives you away -	TBF	Jan 2012	#94
I agree	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#101
"I will fight for every single worker to have what you have."	treestar	Jan 2012	#96
Care to elaborate on your "case"?	TBF	Jan 2012	#99
Home size is about land area	jeff47	Jan 2012	#106
The US hasn't grown much in the past 30 years	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#115
Growth really doesn't enter into it	jeff47	Jan 2012	#118
I agree with most of what you said	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#123
Because it was very hard to build a house	jeff47	Jan 2012	#135
I'm not sure where you live? I think where you live has a lot more to do with	glowing	Jan 2012	#58
It's not like NY though	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#72
"Simple living" -	TBF	Jan 2012	#77
Stop with the right wing meme BS	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#80
My "biases" entail getting rid of capitalism	TBF	Jan 2012	#90
We simply disagree on the definition of "fairly"	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#103
I guess so -	TBF	Jan 2012	#109
time to bail on your disruptor	elehhhhna	Jan 2012	#145
I live very simply now because I've never had a pot to piss in.. and this is after	glowing	Jan 2012	#83
Lots of good thoughts there	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#113
"Multiple Generation" housing is increasing in the neighborhood I live.	hunter	Jan 2012	#102
yet people in starving Africa own more and better cellphones than we do.	provis99	Jan 2012	#61
And sadly, many places in rural areas in this country don't even have a cell signal.	glowing	Jan 2012	#84
hmm...	chervilant	Jan 2012	#65
I've noticed that as well.	TBF	Jan 2012	#93
Indeed.	chervilant	Jan 2012	#141
Enough with the right-wing talking points	Hugabear	Jan 2012	#110
Nice strawman!!	Kellerfeller	Jan 2012	#114
Each Apple employee generates $400,000 in profits per year. That's why.	Fool Count	Jan 2012	#36
I agree completely. nt	TBF	Jan 2012	#37
I usually work 60+ hours per week and	Tuesday_Morning	Jan 2012	#39
Too much or too little work are bad for you.	gulliver	Jan 2012	#41
I don't know if we work as hard as, say, the 12 year old slave laborers that produce chocolate	jtuck004	Jan 2012	#44
Because we create more wealth for the 1% that way.	Starry Messenger	Jan 2012	#45
I hear you. Sometimes I feel the same way. But you know...	Honeycombe8	Jan 2012	#47
"My young men shall never work," said he with a wave of the hand,	Zorra	Jan 2012	#50
Your email perfectly describes work.	Honeycombe8	Jan 2012	#152
There are very little options of "choosing" where one works.. these days its seen	glowing	Jan 2012	#57
I have to say	Skittles	Jan 2012	#64
Just because you like it now doesn't mean you always will	jeff47	Jan 2012	#108
I'm from the south. Women still do the holiday cooking and cleanup.	Honeycombe8	Jan 2012	#151
Brings to mind a point and counterpoint.	Snarkoleptic	Jan 2012	#49
It makes you free, don't you know?	2ndAmForComputers	Jan 2012	#53
How else do you plan to be a "successful American"??	Beartracks	Jan 2012	#54
conversely, if you are rich you must have worked like a dog to get it.	Quantess	Jan 2012	#139
But of course, they worked in shipping!	Beartracks	Jan 2012	#150
50 years old working 60-80 per week..	SomethingFishy	Jan 2012	#55
I feel the same way.. I just want to be able to work enough that it pays the bills,	glowing	Jan 2012	#62
"Why are so many who work hard not making a living?" would be a better question. n/t	gkhouston	Jan 2012	#56
That's a great question. I hope people start asking these politicians when they	glowing	Jan 2012	#60
Work....there's just no money in it! n/t	pitchforksandtorches	Jan 2012	#59
because the 1% took the lion's share of the 99%'s advances.	Festivito	Jan 2012	#66
Try the books...	druidity33	Jan 2012	#68
Technology only raises the bar on what we are expected to accomplish	ehrnst	Jan 2012	#70
All by design, isn't it? Evil bastards, aren't they?	SammyWinstonJack	Jan 2012	#74
So VERY true.	chervilant	Jan 2012	#85
keeps us busy, occupies our minds	stuntcat	Jan 2012	#88
I'm reminded of Herman Melville's "Typee"	Courtesy Flush	Jan 2012	#91
K & R !!!	WillyT	Jan 2012	#95
Is US economic policy based off the politics of the beehive?	shcrane71	Jan 2012	#97
They want us living in factories, like the workers at that awesome Foxconn village	redqueen	Jan 2012	#100
Jon Stewart did a nice bit on Foxconn	jorno67	Jan 2012	#104
Hard work has never bothered me	guitar man	Jan 2012	#105
We don't	kctim	Jan 2012	#107
What A F**king Joke and Sanctimonious Hooey	HangOnKids	Jan 2012	#112
Of course you don't	kctim	Jan 2012	#116
Almost every low wage manufacturing job where I have worked required a lot of hard work	Nikia	Jan 2012	#119
You only need a 'high paying' job	kctim	Jan 2012	#124
I am saying that pay does not often correlate to "hard work"	Nikia	Jan 2012	#127
Ah, I follow	kctim	Jan 2012	#130
Please, take that right-wing tripe somewhere else	Hugabear	Jan 2012	#148
Stop playing on the Internet and get back to work :)	snooper2	Jan 2012	#111
K&R	B Calm	Jan 2012	#117
Grunt	David Jeffrey Spetch	Jan 2012	#121
One of the things that I disliked about my former workplaces	Nikia	Jan 2012	#122
We all must work; pay all that money into Social Security; and drop dead young! n/t	Tom_Foolery	Jan 2012	#126
I remember reading a news article describing how much money "Business" was losing on Angry Birds	Evoman	Jan 2012	#128
I once had a Japanese assistant who was training to teach Japanese to foreigners	Lydia Leftcoast	Jan 2012	#129
To SOME EXTENT, it might depend on where you live in the US	BrendaBrick	Jan 2012	#131
kick	Blue_Tires	Jan 2012	#132
Kick nt	woo me with science	Jan 2012	#138
K & R!	lonestarnot	Jan 2012	#144
K&R Great Post! n/t	PhoenixAbove	Jan 2012	#146

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