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Originally Posted by Headless-Pixie";p="
It's the systems fault man!! LOL
No, it really is. A little story:
I've always wanted to be a gravedigger (morbid i know). I'm comfortable around the dead, I'm very respectful and i love digging holes (don't ask why, i just do). It's my dream job. Now i understand there just aren't many vacancies at the moment but what pisses me off is that so many people hate therre jobs (and i can't s wee grave digging being a exception). Why do people get stuck in roles they hate when there are always people who would envy their job? I can't be a gravedigger because the vacancies are taken by people who need the money, not because they want to do it.
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I totally understand your situation, but at the same time, you have to understand the laws of supply and demand. Furthermore, I think the idea of people getting stuck in jobs they hate, is because of timing. I've taken a lot of horrible jobs, because for one reason or another, it was the "best" thing I could get at the time. But that's not the government's fault. It's not really anyone's fault.
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You'll find, if you talk to a socialist, that most call for power to be devolved to lowest level. A bottom up approach.
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Sorry, but I just don't trust the dregs of society to be handed that much power. It's like handing the keys to the family car over to the 5 year old.
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I'm repulsed by attractive women wearing clothes. What about my right not to be offended?
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Be serious.
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Do you know how many people can, could and have written windows like programs? But they don't get anywhere regardless of how good it is, was, could be. Microsoft has a monopoly on it and isn't going to let anyone else challenge it. Why should they?
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Not exactly. Linux has gained a foothold in the computing community, and it's not a Microsoft product. And again...I still think that very few individuals have the ambition as Bill Gates.
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There's probably a fair few 'lowly' factory workers who would like to be manager and would be good at it. But if everyone was a manager then the factory wouldn't make anything would it? That what annoys me. There's not infinite space at the top.
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Is it the company's fault? Is it the manager's fault?
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Not everyone can be rich. No matter how they hard they work some people aren't going to make it.
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Again...it's ambition. I worked at a place where the owner thought the same thing you did. However, instead of pining for socialism, and instead of wanting to beat down "the man," he created his own company. You're only partially right. Not everyone can be rich, but everyone has the opportunity to be rich. It's just the folks who wanted it bad enough, got to that level.
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And some will make it just cos they've got a rich dad. That's not fair and needs to be changed.
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Doesn't even fit into the equation. Less than 1% of "rich folks" get that way from inheritance. But then again...how is an inheritance "not fair?" Just because YOU want your grubby little hands on someone else's money, doesn't make it right. Get your
own money.
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I make something and it's worth a few quid but for my boss to make a profit he's going have to have to take a share of that few quid.
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Actually...you're wrong here. He's not taking from you. You're taking from him. Being the owner, he's entitled to 100% of what the company makes. However, he pays your salary out of his pocket, in exchange for your help in the company's operation.
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I'm not getting back what i'm worth. Now i could live with that, after all his job maybe necessary. I just don't get why he gets a bigger slice than me.
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You're not? Who says? You? Who are you? Again, he gets a bigger slice than you because it's HIS money on the line. If the company goes bankrupt, you're just out of a job. He's financially ruined.
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I get it now, you want money, but you don't want to have to actually work, you just want to sit in a swivel chair all day. Go get a real job and be useful.
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Oh, so you think manual labor is the only "real work?" Please. Don't be an idiot.
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Yep poor people are poor because there lazy. It's perfectly possible to climb the ladder. That's why so many African plantation workers end up being CEO's
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Don't compare some backwards oligarchist African way of doing things with capitalism in a "modern country" such as ours. You know what I meant.