(December 1, 2010 at 3:05 pm)lilyannerose Wrote: How much of that money that goes to the corporations and rich holders comes off of the backs of those laboring in horrendous working conditions at barely supportable wages with very few workers' rights?Yet these workers still work, despite the conditions and wages? I put to you that they do so because they have balanced out the pros and cons in their head and come to the conclusion that this is the only work they can do which can support them. If they didn't reach this conclusion, they wouldn't be working there in the first place.
Corporations have to keep their workers happy, or their workers will not work. If all of their workers up and left one day, it would cause massive loses for the company, not to mention all the time it would take to find new workers / train them.
Quote:How can one call these profits off of the sweat and despair of the third world working class be measured and achieve the status of "equality?"Equality does not mean everyone is the same; it means everyone is treated the same, regardless of their income, sex, gender, race, etc. As I said above, everything is a balance. If the workers feel that they aren't being paid enough for the conditions they work in, they can either petition the company for more money, or they can walk out and find another job. The fact that they stay suggests (at least to me) that the workers feel their pay is justified given their skillset, or that they cannot find work elsewhere and must therefore make do with what they have.
