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If you reduce the question to the narrow field of your own professional life, then of course you can make any claim whatsoever. Furthermore, I disagree strongly
by epups 4y ago
If you reduce the question to the narrow field of your own professional life, then of course you can make any claim whatsoever. Furthermore, I disagree strongly with your principles. We need to help people who are already losing economically, not the opposite. Doing otherwise leads to a broken society in which I have no desire to live in, even if I could personally earn 2x or 3x more there. I'm very glad the guy who picks up my trash has a union and leads a decent life, with access to education, healthcare and reasonable working hours.
- roenxi 4y ago> We need to help people who are already losing economically, not the opposite. We could try helping them by pointing out effective strategies and encouraging the ineffective to adopt them? You can't help someone who is adopting a failing strategy. If you push them ahead, their strategy will pull them behind. Someone who adopts an effective strategy in todays world is basically guaranteed to do well economically. Someone who adopts striking as a strategy is probably flipping a coin as to if they can even hold their wages steady. They've been trying for centuries, it doesn't work. If it worked there'd be evidence of it by now. Saving money and investing, angling to control capital works. The gap between the two strategies is overwhelming. Anyone who encourages striking as a strategy is undermining the welfare of the poor. It is a destructive strategy that wastes time with huge opportunity costs.