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Every day I am newly amazed by the apparently limitless extent of modern greed. People will do ANYTHING to make money, and it's truly incomprehensible to me ho
by habosa 13y ago
Every day I am newly amazed by the apparently limitless extent of modern greed. People will do ANYTHING to make money, and it's truly incomprehensible to me how far some will go.
These "recruiters" go to a foreign country, promise people a better life and money for their families. They then put them in constructed slums, a service for which they charge exorbitant rent to the inhabitants. They then create random fees and regulations to reduce the worker's already tiny paycheck to nearly-nothing. On top of all of that, they constantly threaten the workers with legal action and deportation if they don't shut up and smile. All these people wanted to do was clean toilets for minimum wage!
So these "recruiters" will treat a group of strangers like animals (actually, worse than most American pets are treated) just to make some commission on the very small wages they falsely promised to these workers. Their desire to make a few dollars completely overrides any consideration of the people of whom they are taking advantage or the families suffering overseas waiting for a promised paycheck in the mail. In my mind this is morally worse than the wall street brand of greed, because at least those investment bankers don't go out of their way to treat individual people in a subhuman manner.
Excuse my language, but fuck all of that. Fuck those people and fuck whatever system made this a profitable enterprise. I really don't know who these people are or what to do about it, but I just wish I didn't have to live and work with people who are so insufferably greedy. This is real evil.
- larrys 13y ago"limitless extent of modern greed" Why do you feel that greed is a modern phenomenon? You just know about it because of the fact that information can be shared more easily. People have always been greedy. If anything you would expect that with the ability to highlight abuses it would actually be decreasing.
- habosa 13y agoGreed is not modern, but the opportunities for taking advantage of other people have grown immensely with new technology, globalization, and general economic expansion. It's easier than ever to be greedy.
- r00fus 13y ago> Excuse my language, but fuck all of that. Fuck those people and fuck whatever system made this a profitable enterprise. Sure. Who do you think made this system possible? Your answer lies in your own rant above… those same investment bankers you think are less evil than these subcontractors. Think of it as tactical greed (i.e., on the ground, personally playing Mephistopheles' part) vs. strategic greed (i.e., altering the rules of the game such that conditions like this are profitable - in the meanwhile, gaining untold profits for themselves).
- habosa 13y agoDefinitely wasn't trying to stick up for greedy bankers here, just saying they're "dollars on paper" evil not "boots on the ground" evil.