tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post3414338537401692734..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): “To My Fellow Filthy Rich Americans: The Pitchforks Are Coming”Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-68712625522137380622016-08-30T21:47:28.936-05:002016-08-30T21:47:28.936-05:00I would note also that you're quoting someone&...I would note also that you're quoting someone's personal opinion as to why Ford raised his workers' wages, not citing Ford himself. This is a more relevant quotation:<br /><br />"But Ford had an even bigger reason for raising his wages, which he noted in a 1926 book, Today and Tomorrow. It’s as a challenging a statement today as it as 100 years ago. “The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.”<br /><br />That's from the Saturday Evening Post:<br />http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/03/history/post-perspective/ford-doubles-minimum-wage.htmlMinnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-74416698235059877892016-08-30T21:42:22.372-05:002016-08-30T21:42:22.372-05:00When I see a sentence like this (in the Forbes art...When I see a sentence like this (in the Forbes article) -<br /><br />"It should be obvious that this story doesn’t work: Boeing would most certainly be in trouble if they had to pay their workers sufficient to afford a new jetliner."<br /><br />- I immediately dismiss the author as a hack. What kind of bullshit logic is that as a refutation?Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-10068488868381725402016-08-30T19:56:57.507-05:002016-08-30T19:56:57.507-05:00Also, capitalism (the private ownership of propert...Also, capitalism (the private ownership of property and operating business for profit) has increased the well being of more people than any other system in the history of mankind. It's demonization by the ignorant (not stupid) is disappointing.<br /><br />The perversion of authority to undermine private property rights and to pick winners and losers in the market should be opposed no matter what name it comes under.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13068752354115705603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-6615948159041736192016-08-30T19:48:56.138-05:002016-08-30T19:48:56.138-05:00This forbes article claims that Ford raised wages ...This forbes article claims that Ford raised wages due to a large turnover in his workforce which resulted from the grueling nature of the work.<br />http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story-of-henry-fords-5-a-day-wages-its-not-what-you-think/#6e8a414f1c96<br /><br />I'm not buying that the pitchforks are coming anytime soon. Large inequality or no the fact remains that the poor in the US live better than the much of the world. The lower classes in France were in a crushing poverty that Does not exist here.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13068752354115705603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-14185244863042934572016-08-30T14:57:44.117-05:002016-08-30T14:57:44.117-05:00Historically, when one small group owns a very lar...Historically, when one small group owns a very large percentage of the wealth of a country, there will be a correction. It remains to be seen what form the correction will take, but I suspect something a bit more sophisticated than pitchforks will be the undoing of the 1/10th of 1%.Barbwirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17375742473254773675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-85139356529590266842016-08-30T14:33:05.161-05:002016-08-30T14:33:05.161-05:00Not everyone has a pitchfork, but it seems everyon...Not everyone has a pitchfork, but it seems everyone has at least on weapon, if not more than enough to make a loud bang on the doors of the .01%ers . <br />""" Eat the rich, eat the rich<br />Don't you know life is a bitch<br />Eat the rich, eat the rich<br />Out of the palace and into the ditch"" ~~ KrokusR.M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882729023358221640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-70298581878929787032016-08-30T13:07:01.242-05:002016-08-30T13:07:01.242-05:00Too many people still believe in the American drea...Too many people still believe in the American dream, that if you start working at a company you may some day own that company... Hard work is a thing of the past, nobody has seen results of it in years. Everyone just does their job, never expect a promotion, never expect a raise. Keep up with your credit card bills and then die. This is where they want us.Korkeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-12426809747674020162016-08-29T21:55:50.621-05:002016-08-29T21:55:50.621-05:00Buy from small local businessmen whenever you can ...Buy from small local businessmen whenever you can (local brewery, burger chain..), even if you pay little bit more. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206590968705755596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-80796994548426642572016-08-29T20:31:00.795-05:002016-08-29T20:31:00.795-05:00He spelled it out in ALLCAPS in his speech at the ...He spelled it out in ALLCAPS in his speech at the rally I attended here in Madison.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-87883308388223047822016-08-29T19:34:39.620-05:002016-08-29T19:34:39.620-05:00This kind of thinking is what Bernie Sanders was o...This kind of thinking is what Bernie Sanders was offering all of us -- I believe that was his appeal to most of his followers even though it wasn't spelled out as clearly as this article does.Classof65https://www.blogger.com/profile/15620524862669295761noreply@blogger.com