11-13-2015, 05:51 PM
(11-13-2015, 01:58 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I think the reason it is so easy to look to the upper classes for where to direct the ire of the workers is because of the ever increasing wage gap, but also because those jobs getting shoved overseas is the result of decisions made by those in those upper classes. Be they executives or politicians, those decisions were made at levels above the pay grade of the average worker, while they are suffering from it.
That's all true, but it's also born out of ignorance. The reality is that in a largely free and open global economy, you react to stay competitive or your company slowly dies and then the paychecks aren't smaller they're just gone.
I think if you want to fix it you have to figure out a way for workers to participate in equity gains. But that's a bandaid and deceptive, because while stock price increases and the incomes of the 1% are staggering, that's only a fraction of the value transferring to developing economies.
