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Inequality, Dignity and Freedom
Topic Started: Mar 10 2014, 12:11 PM (48 Views)
tomdrobin
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It’s all very well to talk in the abstract about the dignity of work, but to suggest that workers can have equal dignity despite huge inequality in pay is just silly. In 2012, the top 40 hedge fund managers and traders were paid a combined $16.7 billion, equivalent to the wages of 400,000 ordinary workers. Given that kind of disparity, can anyone really believe in the equal dignity of work?

In fact, the people who seem least inclined to respect the efforts of ordinary workers are the winners of the wealth lottery. Over the past few months, we’ve been harangued by a procession of angry billionaires, furious that they’re not receiving the deference, the acknowledgment of their superiority, that they believe is their due. For example, last week the investor Sam Zell went on CNN Money to defend the 1 percent against “envy,” and he asserted that “the 1 percent work harder. The 1 percent are much bigger factors in all forms of our society.” Dignity for all!

And there’s another group that doesn’t respect workers: Republican politicians. In 2012, Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, infamously marked Labor Day with a Twitter post celebrating ... people who start their own businesses. Perhaps Mr. Cantor was chastened by the backlash to that post; at a recent G.O.P. retreat, he reportedly urged his colleagues to show some respect for Americans who don’t own businesses, who work for someone else. The clear implication was that they haven’t shown that kind of respect in the past.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/opinion/krugman-inequality-dignity-and-freedom.html?ref=paulkrugman
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Berton
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More envy and whining from comrade krugman in the Daily Worker. doglaugh

Edited by Berton, Mar 10 2014, 08:42 PM.
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colo_crawdad
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Is something wrong with your computer, Berton? The link didn't take mine to the Daily Worker.
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Berton
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It should have. Have you checked your computer lately? Call the Geek Squad and have them check it out.

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tomdrobin
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Krugman is a unapologetic liberal. Suggesting he is a communist is just more stupid from right wing loony land.
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