HabitableZone

Off Topic » in reply to Einsteins's letter cooroborates my observations precisely.

Your views would make sense...

If there was just one giant corporation in America, and not tens of thousands of businesses with tens of thousands of different bosses and millions of jobs in thousands of categories.

Everything you say in this context seems to imply some form of indentured servitude where if you lose a particular job you're cast permanently into the outer darkness. This hasn't been my experience. Heck, going by what I know of your biography, it hasn't even been yours.

The average worker changes jobs 11 times in their life. That's ten times they've kicked the dust of some company off their shoes and moved onward, and often upward. This has become even more common in recent times as the era of the lifetime job and gold watch fades away, and employment becomes more fluid.

There may be a few workers so unskilled or incapable that they're chained to a particular business location, but I've never seen or met one.

For most Americans, your scenario doesn't actually exist in the real world.

Your boogeyman is largely imaginary.

It still boggles my mind that this kind of thing bugs you, but (for example) assigning total authority for the nation's health care to a cadre of unelected bureaucrats in Washington doesn't seem to bother you a bit.

When did you decide you couldn't trust the motives of businessmen, but you could unfailingly trust the motives of politicians? Especially given the historical record?

It's a hell of a lot easier to dump a lousy boss than it is to dump a lousy political system.

As for what I do here now and then, attempted persuasion is at the completely opposite pole from coercion. It's how civilized people handle opposing views.

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