Posted by alexandra_k on June 19, 2018, at 2:19:37
In reply to Re: four year degrees, posted by alexandra_k on June 6, 2018, at 0:40:16
The government distributes most of the money. I mean, all the publically funded stuffs in this country. The public health system and education system and so on and so forth.
The government employes...
Doctors and lawyers and teachers and analysts and consultants and cleaners and administrators and lunch ladies and bar staff...
Never mind about taxation and redistribution of gross income...
The government fixes the payscales of all of the above. How much teachers earn and the earning potential for various pay bumps. Policemen and firemen and army people...
Most of the people in this country, I reckon.
I guess consultants have a bit more freedom from the pay scale structures that are really very fixed...
But this situation of people who work and don't get enough to live without still needing to beg for welfare scraps or beg for scraps from some agency (where the government employs people to work there and data collect on their begging if nothing else, at all)...
It's a problem entirely of the governments own making.
The inequality. The fact that they don't pay their employees enough for their employees to heat their homes. They own houses (well, they did, but now they're investing in private healthcare facilities, I think).
They divert public money into their own private investments and ensure the collapse of the public sector.
The politicians earn in excess of $200,000 per year and they approve their own pay increases before anybody elses. They don't give their cleaners a living wage.
It's all a fuckign con.
I do think this country owes me.
Quite often I go to seminars, or whatever. And I think about how much money this person is supposed to be on. And I think... How? Why? How and why are they considered 'all that' that they deserve to have all that they do? I mean, is their work really that amazing?
Half the time it seems like... Taking the piss. As in, just how bad can I make this and still the people who employ me won't notice or care! Kind of a...
Just pissing on the world, really.
It's disgusting.
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