God dammit I love a good fucking story!
A couple of days ago, or so, I shared a story [agnostic.com] of Dan Price raising the salaries of his employees to 70K. Although the source dated the story of 2019 I come to find it's actually a 2015 story. Thanks to a question from GreenAtheist I went on a search for answers.
This change without adding more fees, he became a victim of backlash in other areas. It's quite a interesting story. My hats off to this guy! I'll bet there are very few people who come from a background like this that go on to make a move as such. My first hit was>>> [nytimes.com] also from 2015.
But then I may have found an actual 2019 update
The $70,000-a-Year Minimum Wage
Capitalist just hate the idea of a sense of socialism balancing the scales of society. And this guy coming from a religious and capital background just stuck a foot up all their asses! When capitalist use socialism to benefit themselves, we have a guy like this who proves them to be what holds society from advancing.
In telling this story to a family member I was told it was an old story. My reply was it's not that old and it is a great example of how capitalism can be used to benefit many instead of 1%. Capitalism is, after all, an economic system not a political system.
Capitalism is said to have been created in Europe, mainly the UK, as it had the largest grip on imperialism and world trade about 300 years ago as it transformed from Feudalism into the industrial age. The industrial age was basically creating a sense of understanding and exposure of evidence of inequality to all of societies. The previous systems mixed with growing world trade lead to power structure wars, unrest in societies. This essentially lead to a need to avoid a total collapse in world affairs. I'll again argue this leads back to the power structure from the grips of the City of London where its elite are sheltered from laws they enforce on us who control all world affairs. All matters of market and currency outside of this little power structure inside of a city, London, around the world merely being arms to that centuries old body.
Which is a large reason I suspect the founding fathers of the US were merely a roost to a new nation being a good deal of them came from the very secret societies of Europe and conducted themselves with the greatest forms of hypocrisy within the very Constitution they developed. The 2nd amendment we so often misrepresent is a perfect example as to just who they truly believed should be controlling power. Today their intentions of the 2nd amendment are being orchestrated through the militarization of our police to stifle society from rightful protest. Our politicians now banning corporate targeted protest, even now labeling such as terrorist acts, and allowing private security firms to be hired to quell protest like we seen in the pipeline protest. Boycott Israel? While giving rights in with one breath, they take them away in another. Seriously, the hypocrisy is deafening.
I often bring up the warnings we get from so many leaders over times towards corporations and the military complex, right out of the gate from Washington himself right through from Obama, Trump even. I must ask, warnings or conditioning? I find it to be rather more towards threatening! Conditioning all the same. Essentially warning that we have these fake rules and protocols for you to abide by. Take no mind to how we conduct ourselves for we are the rulers. We have the power to crush you otherwise.
Any economic system can be used to benefit a society, or as a tool to abuse a society. Even socialism has been used to do such. No matter how you see your preferred system it is composed of all of them in a combined measure. It's simply what the ruling class at the moment in time want to call it and how they want to use it.
Haven't many of us said it's unbridled, unchecked capitalism that is unhealthy.
Haven't many of us said pure socialism falls prey to greed and top power.
It takes a balancing act to do cover the vast middle of what humans need in a society.
There are so many variables and that makes each area around the world unique.
I personally am beyond tired of humans beating up on (this covers, racism, sexism, etc.) and then in the extreme killing over their differences.
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