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Board Economics
Re: You work your butt off, and a rich dude does nothing and gets rich - how?
by
realdope
on 22/09/2014, 17:54:57 UTC
Imagine this:

person A has no money and is working 50% of his time to get paycheck, rest of his time he uses to sleep and be with family. 100% time used

person B has money, and can hire other people to do job instead of him , and he gets his own cut, therefore, he earns money without wasting time to do so, allowing him to spread his business more and more, earning more, and with no time wasted on actually doing anything.

there's also a word for this ; modern slavery.

That's a phrase, it's a play to emotions, and it's a bad one. You simply cannot compare the current state of affairs to slavery, as it doesn't satisfy the conditions of slavery at all. People really need to stop using slavery as a comparison to people who work jobs. You're severely diminishing the term "slavery" and exaggerating the 9-5 sludge.

People are being paid to do the work, they are not being forced to do the work, they can leave their job at any point, and usually they are actually very desperately wanting to have the work to do.

The term for person B is entrepreneur and person A is worker.

We absolutely need both. Either you have entrepreneurs who create jobs, or you have the government create the jobs.

We've seen both scenarios, we know the outcomes.

In the end, I know very few rich people who do not work their butts off. Sure there are some trust fund kids... but please. People over exaggerate the "lifestyles" of the rich. Most rich aren't Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump *does* work. He's a bad dude, got rich off screwing others, but he does work his butt off, so your premise is still wrong.

Most importantly as well, if you feel your country is slavery because of capitalism, get the hell out. Go to Cuba, China, North Korea, Venezuela, or whatever country uses the type of system you want. Again it's not slavery. Pick up your lazy ass and go where you want to be.


People aren't "free to leave the job at anytime". If you are working a shitty job, it means you aren't able to find any better, and if you stop working, you are fucked as you can't pay the bills and basic needs. It's subtle slavery, while Mr King has a perpetual luxurious holiday. It's a joke.