Usdk wrote:
you're really not holding water here tehra. you talking about leaving your job because you don't agree with a big issue that your job was on the wrong side of is fine.
jubber leaving his job because he doesn't like the job/people he works with/etc i also fine.
You were going for a cheap shot that had nothing to do with the issue at hand and you know it.
No, I was pointing out that things that make him bitch about his work are commonplace overseas and the irony thereof is laughable. Part of the thread I linked, and was pointing out, involves his concern for safety and improper working conditions for himself, and the "rage" resulting from it.
Jubbergun wrote:
If those people thought they were being mistreated, they could do exactly what I'm obviously such an anti-social bastard for doing and say, "no thanks, I'm done here." They don't, though, do they? Why is that? Because we're forcing the barrel of a gun down their throat? No, because it's a damn sight better than what they had before and they welcome the opportunity.
Here, I'll cite a conversation that occurred before you even posted that.
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mazel (8:50:17 PM): a worker strike in a factory in china
mazel (8:50:20 PM): can easily spell
mazel (8:50:25 PM): much more expensive
mazel (8:50:30 PM): basically anything
OmniaSuntLumina (8:50:54 PM): yep, until the corporations find other workers who will be "willing" to work for something, as usd mentioned
OmniaSuntLumina (8:51:08 PM): then you leave the country you were using in an economic quagmire
mazel (8:51:09 PM): yeh
OmniaSuntLumina (8:51:21 PM): and the new one gives you new lower prices, but you're still going to charge more than you did before
OmniaSuntLumina (8:51:26 PM): because you have to recoup moving costs
OmniaSuntLumina (8:51:49 PM): and people will be convinced $5 might be more than $4.50, but it's less than $7, so they're ok
OmniaSuntLumina (8:52:25 PM): this is all because corporations need to sell their product, get the best margin, and will look to cut costs where they can.
mazel (8:52:30 PM): mhmm
OmniaSuntLumina (8:53:14 PM): and people forget that we push jobs elsewhere because people demand more compensation for work here
OmniaSuntLumina (8:53:34 PM): but the real reason people want more compensation is because they're in a consumer competition with each other
OmniaSuntLumina (8:53:54 PM): one giant clockwork machine spinning faster and faster until burnout.
mazel (8:53:56 PM): everything and everyone is connected
OmniaSuntLumina (8:55:11 PM): and until people understand that singular action can create an avalanche of change, people will continue to be selfish.
Yes, you clearly have a choice over in China, where the factory workers are essentially college aged kids who live in dorms across the way from the factory building and live in terrible conditions, fornicate and abuse drugs and alcohol as a means of escape while they send back any money they can make to family who are barely surviving on a farm, all because if they didn't, they'd fall to the wayside. Could they leave that job and work elsewhere? Sure, and do the same thing. Did everyone forget the riots that were occurring there when they were moving jobs out of the south?
God fucking bless America.
