It's Tuesday. The Subject Is Money. GO!
I've been reading a lot lately about the younger generation's apathy towards established social values because they feel hopelessly removed from them. Kinda like a Dickensian street waif fogging up the glowing windows of privilege with their unfortunate desperation. Some social scientists have labeled this particular segment of the population "The
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I agree with you completely. Just yesterday I was startled to read that it's not only fast-food and discount-store workers; even bank-tellers are having to rely on public assistance! It seems a huge proportion of low-paid employees are in the same fix!
The "middle-class" is having a hard time making ends meet, too. Tax-payers are taking home less of their paychecks because they are supplementing the payrolls of the mega-corporations! As you said, "A livable working wage should be a basic right." People are feeling the economic inequality more and more. They are indignant about the unfairness of it. The latest economic crash made the situation a lot worse. More and more protests and strikes are being held, all over the world.
I think now the only way to help people to make a decent living is through legislation. The companies should not be permitted to make their employees use public assistance, instead of paying a living wage in the first place. There need to be laws against that! Too many politicians are hand-in-glove with the industrial giants. They are biased against laws to protect workers. But the Republicans and the media can spout off all they want; the fact remains that we voted Obama in for a second term, and his reforms (like the Affordable Care Act) are helping to make things better.
Oh, yes, I saw that show when Jon Stewart took on Stuart Varney. That was hilarious, and also right to the point. The rationalizations against paying a living wage were shown up for just how ridiculous they are!
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