re: Capitalism is great, but it ain’t perfect!

You're right. Capitalism is the worst economic system ever created, except for all of the others.

Unions, OSHA, and minimum wage is the only thing keeping wages up. True capitalist would say let immigrants in to replace you for 1/3 the wages!

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Unions, OSHA, and minimum wage is the only thing keeping wages up.

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As in, you are a dumbass.

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OP-Cycledude

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Did Bernie suck you off?

I employ 29 people everyday. No one that works full time for me makes less than $15/hr. I hire high school and college kids every year as extra help during the summer. It ain’t OSHA or unions keeping American wages down! It’s a lazy arse entitled generation we are producing in this country. Want a check, want to be manager, need Thursday off because their dog has an appointment, and Friday because 5 straight days of work is stressful and requires medicine for them to endure!! 14 of my employees will make $50K + this year and 4 or 5 will make $70K. Everyone of them are commission jobs, like most every job in my organization. But we struggle to find young talent because they want NOW. They want to play on their phone all damn day, struggle with a 40 hr work week.

Just FYI, I grew up dirt arse poor, single mom raised! Graduated 235 in my high school class of 390. I’m what capitalism is all about. If the government would get out of our way we’d add more locations but they punish us with income tax, payroll tax, inventory tax. huge permit fees to build/add on to our business.

I worked in a plant with union employees 20 yrs ago before I started my own business. Unions are a protection for shitty employees and not much more. Good employees don’t need their protection!

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The wealth disparity is only growing

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Question: does it matter?

Is the better question not, “How are our poor doing as compared to years past?” Because the answer to the second question tells us our poor today are even ahead of our rich 100 years ago, let alone the poor of socialist or other countries. Disparity grows while overall quality of life increases.

Cycle over to the politics board, dude.