Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
How is there honour in making other people rich? How is there dignity in serving congealed fat as food to children? or mopping the floors of a bathroom?
The Nazi's presumably took their jobs very seriously, was there honour in that?
And have you ever done those jobs? I did while in high school. Those jobs, and especially any jobs dealing with the public, are hell. There is no opportunity for advancement in those fields. They are dead end jobs, designed with high-employee turnover in mind. Unlike Stompy's computer programming job, these jobs can be done by anybody. If an employee quits, they just hire an illegal immigrant and pay them less money.
People take such jobs because there aren't other alternatives. I didn't work in fast food because I wanted to, I did it as a means to an end (a way to earn money to pay my car insurance). Not everyone is lucky enough to find a job he/she likes to do. The porn industry requires certain physical attributes not everyone has, and not many people get paid to sleep and watch TV.
That's nonsense. The richest people are usually the ones who don't work, they live off trust funds or family connections (George Bush, the Kennedy family, etc).
The way to earn more than minimum wage is to keep your head down, not risk anything, and just do what you are told. But you will never have control over your own destiny if you do that, and many people don't find that a satisfying way to live.
But hey, don't get me wrong, you'd probably love me as an employee. I always show up on time and I do everything I'm told. I even put on a happy face at work. But deep down, I know that the company I work for, and me by extension, is doing evil work. I resent it, but I also recognize that it's too late in life to try and do anything different. It's not hard to make money stealing from other people, but it's hardly just.
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That's a bunch of stinking steaming crap.
Why? Because there are others out there who did climb the ladder by starting at the bottom, from Mel Karmazin to Carlos Gutierrez (now Commerce Secretary), Colin Powell, et. al. There's plenty of people who worked their way to the top. Even just looking at the dot com days of the "slackers" that moved vs. those that didn't. The ones that did are millionaires if not billionaires.
The more money the companies make the more money I make. How so? Because of things like profit sharing, options, 401(k) matching stocks, etc. It may not be when I first walk in the door, but it's going to be at some point in time because that's what the more senior and more tenured members of the company get. And I'm willing to work hard to get my slice of the pie.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 12-14-2004 at 10:25 AM..
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