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"All life is about 'power forces'." If you accept that 100%, you understand a looot more things that if you believe in equality. People who earn less earn les
by mam2 6y ago
"All life is about 'power forces'."
If you accept that 100%, you understand a looot more things that if you believe in equality.
People who earn less earn less because they have less power or did not know how to use it, for example during negociations. I think 50% workers around do not negociate..
(Even equality comes from power struggles: it's a concept invented by poor / not powerful people to unite behind a concept and creat a "group power".)
It's the cold harsh reality to me.
I come from a left wing family where class awareness was present so it's a concept I think would be nice at a society level to have more equlity.
But where I don't have any sympathy to people who earn less, is that in the engineering world, when you try to explain this, most people get angry or tell me that I'm an asshole. Also they don't want to make unions and refuse to engage in any power struggle. I am not an asshole, I'm trying to be realistic. However in that caae they are the literal cliché of the "nice guys". Well let's say I tried. Now I don't care being called an asshole, it's even a compliment to me. You want more ? Fight for it, don't be just "offended" or "sad".
- credit_guy 6y ago> I think 50% workers around do not negotiate. That's probably correct. And lest anyone reading this makes the rash decision to "negotiate" for a higher salary next time they have a meeting with their boss: negotiation without alternatives is just begging. If you tell your boss give me more money because I'm such a great guy and I work so hard, he'll just say he'd love to, but it's not up to him, etc. If you tell him that you have another job offer, and you are seriously inclined to leave, then you're actually talking serious negotiation. Morale of the story: best way to prepare for negotiation is to prepare for interviews.