I keep saying that the whole "Industrial Revolution" thing was a mistake!

"Strabo" wrote in message
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In HP laying off 25,000 employes! on Wed, 27 Jul 2005
18:15:13 GMT, by JayCee, we read:

Tom Gardner wrote:
"Cliff" wrote in message

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Clearly, with al that increased productivity there was much
more money to pay raises to the workers with ...
--
Cliff


And why do the "workers" deserve pay raises as compared to return on
investment by the stock holders? Do you think that people should invest
their money out of the goodness of their hearts and abandon it and
abandon
all hope of even recouping the money for their retirement? ...after
all,
the "workers" do all the work and deserve every benefit of somebody
else's
money.


Tom, good luck trying to reason with these liberals. They just can't
seem to understand that corporations are supposed to make a profit. They
seem to see corporations as just some sort of welfare agency that
provides jobs and benefits.

Once civilization left the independence and self-sufficiency of
the farm and entered into the corporate state, the importance
of government control of business increased as did the financial
glue that holds together the state and society.

Politics today is a dichotomy of special interests. On the one
side are the megacorps and on the other are the people that make
them go. With no alternative for most but a paycheck for 50 years
of grinding work and social security to see them to their graves,
people in the west find themselves dependent on the corporation.

To then see their jobs flee to outsourcing or done in by
foreign slave competition, induces anger, fear and trepidation.
Yes, the corporation and it's government partner, have created
a welfare state which the majority of people expect to provide
jobs and benefits.