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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
Lots of companies mistake the "minimal legal wage" for "normal wage". I once had a somewhat qualified job with a good amount of stress, and I had the same salary as the guys wiping the floor, who had no responsibilities whatsoever and overall a lot easier life than me and my colleagues, no overtime (unpaid) and so on.
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Spot on. so far the threadhas only been running about finding foul excuses why one must not adress the issue, and that the poor are poor because they deserve it. that the middle class is breaking away and the new poor are being formed by former middle class with parents being in labour, is comfortably ignored. It is eaier to declare every poor guy a lazy parasite and alcoholic. Well, such people do exist, too. But they do not form the bone of this new develoepment, nor are they a majority. they were and are a minority group. the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens losing jobs try hard to find new work, and accept even unacceptable working cinditons and slavery wages just to work again, may it be of reasons for self-rerspect, may it be because they do not know what to do when staying at home.
There are dirty jobs, and stressing jobs, yes. and local natives should be willing to do these themselves, yes. But they should get a fair payment for that, then. the type of job may be hard to accept, but often can be accepted - but the wages to be earned there often is what turns it into unacceptable jobs. And if you defend economic policies that lead to the state paying social aid to an "employee" so that he can at least survive on the most minimum of living levels (so-called Hartz-IV-receivers get around 330 euros in total - from that they have to pay everything), becasue a company were he works pays him 1 euro per hour (a reality here in Germany), at the same time the person not being allowed to earn more than i think 150 euros additionally - then this ic cyncism at its very best and highest. If that person earns more than that limit, Hartz-IV is cancelled, and then he is stranded in a job were he has to make his income for a living from a job that pays him 1 euro per hour (which is an offemnse in itself). Now do some calculations, and then understand why people do not work that way. It is the only logical choice to do. the month does not have enough hours to earn you a living.
More and more people can no longer live from their hand's work. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. In Germany, Hartz-IV was imlemented to get away from the high spendings in the social sector. It also was meant to motivate people by small rewards and high pressure to accept jobs they did not accept before. However, comaonies are shown in statistics not to turn 1-Euro-Jobs into regular jobs after a time of testing the new guy. Instead they take proftiable benefit of the opportunity, destroy regular jobs, and turn them into 1-euro-Jobs, by that destablizing both the social and the economic system. we have seen the same effect ten or twelve years earlier, when so-called mini-jobs ("student's jobs") lost certain tax priviliges and had to pay a tax flat rate, in return companies were allowed to turn regular jobs into these new mini-jobs. It all was meant to give social insurance security (hehe, very small ones...) to poeple who before worked in such jobs, and had no security at all. but in fact it turned into the intended killing of hundreds of thosuands of jobs, that then were turned ionto these mini-jobs with lower wages for employees, and greater tax xavings for the company. Before this transition, we had around 100-150 thousand such jobs in Germany. now we have over 800 thousand. that is a loss from tax income for the state. That is a loss of social stability and future secureity for employees, that is the destruction of hundreds of thoisuands of jobs that before were "normal" jobs". Whole branches now had chnaged and now depend on these sickening, unhelathy conditions to be the norm - these branches have chnaged in that wy that economically they cannot survive, thexy say, if their jobs would be turned into jobs that give people an exiostence again. Isn't that crazy, inhumane and deeply unhealthy for the social stability of a state?
the reason why policy allows this to happen, is easy. The victims of this new job landscape - do no longer appear in unemployment statistics. That's all.
Note, that the article and the study speaks of three in four nations of the world. This is not about germany and the US alone, these two are just ion the small group of nations were such detoriations have turned worse faster than in most other nations. If the gap between rich and poor is woiedning in 3 of four nations, then aroun 150 nations are affected - much more than just the wetsern and Asian industrial nations. we talk of third worl nations, and the poorest and the poor. Slave labours and landowners. The rich elite of a banana republic that cooperates with the foreign industrial corporation while the national population lives in the dirt or is supressed by tyranny.
This is also what the study is about. so please, guys: stop being so ignorrant like many of you have displayed to be in your postings here. You ashame yourself with this kind of social-darwinistic cynism. If your outcry about the criminal elitists at Wall street and in the bank's top floors would be as loud as your condemning of the poor, and if you would brankmark the failed new economy theory that has allowed a damage to accumulate that nullifies they costs of financing unemployed families, much coluld be acchieved. but waiting for that outcry probably is a wait in vein. Better serve the cliche of the poverty-deserving lazy poor, and declare the exception from the rule - the rule itself.
