Korean meat processor wins bid to buy U.S. chicken company

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I'd be a bit less apathetic about jobs if I spent some time on the unemployment line, and even more so if I didn't have so much to begin with. Most people don't have what I do to start with... and many of these people get to enjoy the possibility of having no income.

Really... what isn't there to be angry with? Money is stockpiled largely by the people who were born into rich families to begin with, who had many profitable job connections, and who often had less to offer in the way of skills than the competition when we cut ahead of it... and we're a minority of the populace. To confound this further... there are people out there who wish for equality for everyone (what socialism often ends up being) and make a quota for hiring blacks, and women, and hispanics, and asians... and these people get to cut in ahead of the others on that basis. And the nonsense does not stop there... minimum wages gut small businesses to the point where they sometimes cannot hire enough help, and the big businesses are taxed more for their excellence. And that is not the end of it!

I can see why people would be angry. I can see why people should be angry. I don't quite see why people haven't all gotten together all revolution style and brutally slaughtered those at the top for their money... but you know: they are poor people. We can't be giving them any ideas now (This is a joke, seriously: don't kill me. I'm poor, I swearz! I liez! But you love me so don't kill me or I'ma call youz french!)

Void isn't a busybody: he's a stoner

Interesting take on the matter in hand, A.
My opinion is that employment matters, therefore being apathetic about jobs when you have one or don't need one strikes me as an " I'm alright Jack, stuff the rest of you " attitude which I wouldn't expect from you. Maybe you don't mean it that way.
Next I would need a lot of convincing evidence to prove that many people ENJOY having no income. I presume here you are referring to the jobless getting by on welfare. I do not accept that all such people are simply lazy scroungers, a few may be, but not the vast majority. The problem is the lack of jobs carrying a reasonable wage. I would not take a horrible job on low money and poor conditions of employment if welfare kept me on the same level. Either welfare is too generous or employers don't pay enough......you can guess which I think is true.
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism, under which the few have all the wealth and power and the many do not ( at differing levels ) and seeks to redistribute the wealth of the world more evenly and I support that ideal.
Affirmative action is seen as a way of countering employment practices that discriminate against different groups of people, based on their ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation etc.etc. I know many people resent it and see it as unfair, but in the absence of something else, how is " fairness " to be assured in the workplace and elsewhere?
In the UK a minimum wage was established fairly recently despite howls of protest from employers, both large and small, all predicting the calamitous effect it would have on the economy.
It hasn't, of course, and it has probably worked against the very people it was suposed to be going to help, because it was set at such a low figure. Employers now advertise for staff, ofering " minimum wage " as if it were a good wage, which it isn't.
A maximium wage would make more sense from my perspective.
I too see why people should be angry and rebellious, but I'm not sure they're the people you are talking about!

On a lighter note, what's a " stoner "?

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My definition came from Google.

Ah yes, I've googled it myself and see multiple choices are offered for the word. I can see why you like this one.
I prefer my Chambers because where you have racism you have discrimination , and your definition doesn't mention it.