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I am more disturbed at the greed behind the original injustice. The tech companies should be punished, the greed of the plaintiffs is completely irrelevant.
by littletimmy 11y ago
I am more disturbed at the greed behind the original injustice. The tech companies should be punished, the greed of the plaintiffs is completely irrelevant.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoWhy is it greed if a walmart worker was being stiffed of a dollar an hour its just as bad as a sales guy losing 20% of a five figure bonus.
- crdoconnor 11y agoWalmart workers and stiffed tech workers have more in common than the "masters of the universe" who rule them both.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThat's a reach. Minimum-wage workers live an order of magnitude differently than either of the others.
- crdoconnor 11y agoYet both are still reliant upon their labor for their livelihood.
- JoeAltmaier 11y ago...for some definitions of the word 'labor'. A difference is, working for minimum wage leaves you at risk of housing, food, health. Anyone who escapes the trap of too-poor-to-live inhabits a different world.
- crdoconnor 11y agoThey still have much more in common than either do with tech billionaires or the land owners to whom they both pay half of their income to in rent. There are laborers - minimum wagers and programmers alike - and there those who are parasitic on the labor of others - CEOs, landlords, financiers. That's the real American divide. Not "scraping by" vs "not scraping by".
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoPhilosophy aside, after your living is secure all the rest is imaginary points. It has to mean less than risk-of-death or living in poverty. Maybe not to a 20-something idealist; but definitely to a parent.
- crdoconnor 11y agoEven supposedly secure, well compensated tech workers can usually still count the number of paychecks away from poverty they are. While you can do that you're not really 'secure'. Especially when you're paying $3,200 a month for the privilege of living in a city where they can earn the good money. But we're still taught to sympathize with the Steve Jobs and Larry Pages than the McDonalds servers who can also count the number of paychecks away from destitution they are.
- littletimmy 11y agoI agree. Let's take these imaginary points away from corporations. They're imaginary, they shouldn't care.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoBasic Income! Agreed!
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoBut they are still "employees" and still have issues at work.