Most of us wouldn't have jobs at all, and most of the goods and services that we provide would not be created, without investors.
I have deep respect for those who have the resources, and are willing to take the risks, to create a company, to organize it and set it up so that people like myself can be employed producing and selling valuable goods and services, that all of us may profit from doing so.
Again, you've mistaken a parasite for a vital organ. The investor makes nothing, produces nothing, creates nothing.
Our economy works well as a symbious between those who provide goods and services and those who consume them. All that could happen perfectly well without investors.
It takes a special class of people to do that, and I have to admit that I am not anywhere close to being in that class. I'm a tool turner. Put tools in my hands, and put me on a task that suits my tools and my skills, and I do very well at it. But I need others to organize the big picture around me, to create the task at which to set me.
Well, funny thing, I am an organizer. I work on huge, million dollar, international trade projects. If you need someone to organize things for you, it's because you are weak.
Then again, you belong to a cult, so you let people do your thinking for you, anyway.
I suppose investors and businessmen are the one sort of person that you hate even more than you hate honest workers.
I recognize them for what they are.... Do they have some use in our system until we become a more enlightened society? Um. Yes. But they need to be watched, and controlled, and punished when they abuse the system.
I'll give you another example you'll ignore. The TOBACCO industry. The Tobacco industry. These investors and businessmen not only sold a product they KNEW to be dangerous, they actually spiked the nicotine to make it more addictive. They intentionally marketed said product to Children. They hired actors to play doctors on TV to say smoking was good for you.
How could you not hate these people and still call yourself a decent human being?
That does not reflect my experiences with any company that I have ever worked for. Yes, we workers bust our assess, and we get well paid for doing so. Our bosses are the ones who know where we need to bust our asses, and in what manner, and without their direction, our own efforts would be futile. That's how it has been in almost every job that I have ever held.
Uh, here's the thing, buddy. You probably don't enjoy anywhere near the affluence people in your trades enjoyed during the 50's and 60's, when they were mostly unionized. This is the shift from the working class to the investor class I was talking about. But you'll dutifully hate on China because Trump tells you to, while he makes money having his products made in China.
I've worked under some really great bosses. I can only think of one boss that I have ever worked under, for whom I didn't have great respect. I never understood what his motives were, but clearly, they were something other than the best interests of the company. A colleague of mine thought that his behavior was consistent with steroid abuse. I wouldn't know enough about steroid abuse of the symptoms thereof to know if my colleague was correct, but some form of mental illness or drug abuse seems likely.
Um, yeah, let me give you a litany of osme of the bosses I worked for.
First job out of the Army, they shut down the branch I worked in to move all our jobs to Wisconsin. But they lied to us for a year about their plans, knowing we'd all bail if we knew.
I worked for another guy who fired female employees when they got pregnant. This same POS is the guy who screwed me over when I busted up my knee.
Another company I worked for, weeks after 9/11 when we were all kind of in shock, decided to take the opportunity to cut all the people they hired at higher wages in the 1990's and then reoffer those same jobs a few months later at lower salaries.
We have seen this war on the working class for years, and when workers embrace Fascism in the form or Trump or SOcialism in the form of Bernie, you all wonder why.
No surprise, you snuck in an opportunity to express your racism, and to try to project it on me; even though, up to this point, no one had mentioned race in connection with this specific matter.
When you direct that same level of hatred to a Tobacco company executive that you do to a poor black kid who stole a bag of chips, then I'll give you credit for not being racist.
