03-20-2022, 02:26 PM
Paragraph by paragraph response:
P1: Very true but more often that not, in lower COL locations, wages and salaries are also lower, so do you really come out ahead. The ones that would benefit might be retirees as they can probably live fairly comfortably on their SS income so long as they can do without all the expensive trappings of urban areas such as super theatrical productions and hotsy-totsy restaurants. I have often contemplated moving to some as you often refer to as hick town at the end of life. Just a few days ago I heard that the percentage of folks who live paycheck to paycheck is in the high-60s/low 70s range. Being that we hear relatively little from them, we can refer to them as the Silent Majority. Today's world definitely isn't set up well to address the plight of these folks.
P2: The incidents that you mention here are just causes for being fired and would stick under a just cause model. But what that would eliminate though are frivolous firings just because, for example, you look at someone the wrong way, or that you were accused of something because a coworker may have had an argument with a spouse the previous evening. And a reason would need to be given. Most firms would do so but there still are a lot of mind games played, especially where temp agencies are concerned.
P3: The thing about this point is that very few if any jobs that I have been made aware of require one to work 60 hours a week. After all, didn't our forefathers shed blood for the 8 hour day, 40 hour week. Many futurists actually predicted that advances in technology would result in further reduction of standard working hours. We're still waiting for this one. What's needed is a Bill of Rights for salaried workers so employers would no longer be able to get 60 hours for the price of 40.
P4: This one I find a bit confusing unless at the end you are referring to companies such as Amazon which became near monopolies while treating their workforce as livestock at best, vermin at worst.
P5: Not a student of Marxism but wasn't his writing the original expose of the potential evils of capitalism dressed up in a different system and name?
P1: Very true but more often that not, in lower COL locations, wages and salaries are also lower, so do you really come out ahead. The ones that would benefit might be retirees as they can probably live fairly comfortably on their SS income so long as they can do without all the expensive trappings of urban areas such as super theatrical productions and hotsy-totsy restaurants. I have often contemplated moving to some as you often refer to as hick town at the end of life. Just a few days ago I heard that the percentage of folks who live paycheck to paycheck is in the high-60s/low 70s range. Being that we hear relatively little from them, we can refer to them as the Silent Majority. Today's world definitely isn't set up well to address the plight of these folks.
P2: The incidents that you mention here are just causes for being fired and would stick under a just cause model. But what that would eliminate though are frivolous firings just because, for example, you look at someone the wrong way, or that you were accused of something because a coworker may have had an argument with a spouse the previous evening. And a reason would need to be given. Most firms would do so but there still are a lot of mind games played, especially where temp agencies are concerned.
P3: The thing about this point is that very few if any jobs that I have been made aware of require one to work 60 hours a week. After all, didn't our forefathers shed blood for the 8 hour day, 40 hour week. Many futurists actually predicted that advances in technology would result in further reduction of standard working hours. We're still waiting for this one. What's needed is a Bill of Rights for salaried workers so employers would no longer be able to get 60 hours for the price of 40.
P4: This one I find a bit confusing unless at the end you are referring to companies such as Amazon which became near monopolies while treating their workforce as livestock at best, vermin at worst.
P5: Not a student of Marxism but wasn't his writing the original expose of the potential evils of capitalism dressed up in a different system and name?