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Originally Posted by Fish
Employers no longer offering pensions. Employers doing everything they can to not pay employees health insurance. Stagnant wages for decades, despite record profits and CEO pay skyrocketing. The largest corporations like Walmart have the most employees receiving welfare benefits. While bullying themselves into a monopoly status, regardless of laws against it. Now there are no more small town department stores at all.
We allowed corporations to acquire too much power in the name of capitalism. They've done nothing but throw their workers into the grinder. And we're supposed to be shocked that employees don't prioritize their work above the rest of their shitty life?
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That free market capitalism has created a pretty good quality of life compared to most of the world. Poor in this country is a 50" flatscreen and an Iphone 8 for 80% of the population. I would argue that the importation of low skilled labor and NAFTA was most detrimental to the middle class, and forced wages down or overseas.