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[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:56:42 AM 

OY! Leave it to you guys to turn poor old Santa into some kind of evil icon for big corporations! HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What sick and cynical minds you have!!!

[_strat_] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:23:55 AM 
Dunno why Kiss is a better example... Anyway, employment. First of all, starting your own business is not an option for everyone, infact its not an option for most people. Not everyone has the ability to run a business. And if everyone was a business owner, what would the world look like? Who would work behind the assembly lines?

Changing your skills is not all that easy. There are many jobs that require a full comitment over many years to learn to do properly. Its not like I can just change my proffesion to find another job. Its a long procces.

Stay or leave. Where would this end? If there werent some minimums that an employer has to provide... We would get back into the 19th centruy, when workers literary slept in factories and worker just for bare existance.
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[_strat_] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:19:02 AM 
Both. One goes with the other, doesnt it?
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[Head banger] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:13:16 AM 

strat, do you want the poor to have more or the rich to have less?

 

[Head banger] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:57:13 AM 
sure, I dont have any coke with santa on it this year anyway.
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[Head banger] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:52:02 AM 
priest might not be the best example, try kiss

the thing is, the employer decides what your work is worth to him.  you decide what the job means to you, if they match, you stay, if not you leave.  if your not happy with the jobs offered or the pay you move, or you change your skills, or you start your own business.
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[_strat_] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:50:30 AM 
Ummm... Lets jsut say that he doesnt exist, and be done with it, ok?
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[Head banger] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:49:25 AM 
no, his job is apearing in comercials, thats a volenteer spot, if you are a volenteer, how can you be exploited
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[_strat_] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:41:03 AM 
No, he is exploited. He has to circle the globe in a single night, and give presents to little brats, and gets only milk and cookies in return.
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[Head banger] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:38:37 AM 
no, not exploited, the image of santa in red was created by coke, they spent money developing the image santa has today, shouldnt they be able to profit from that?
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[_strat_] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 5:08:17 AM 
Youre not reading well, in that case. "For no other reason than that the poor want what the rich have"? I say that the poor create what the rich have. I  think this has to be about the fifth time I made that point in the course of this discussion.

How does the employer judge what we earn? If anything the employer judges what we will get. There is a massive difference between the two. We can, as you say, accept it or not. But the fact is that we need jobs. And if every employer is only willing to give us so much... What power of choice do we actualy have? Only the power to pick the lesser of many evils. Thank the unions for their historic role, since its because of them and because of the two centuries worth of class struggles that there are at least some minimums that an employer has to fulfill!  They cannot give us less than the minimal wage, cannot force us to work longer than the maximum work hours, and cannot fire us for looking at them the wrong way. But outside of that, its still the game of supply and demand... But with people instead of products.

Risk... Ok, someone took the risk. It can be done without it, but lets forget about that for a line or two. Was it the CEO of a big and well established corporation that took the risk to create it? No. Was it the great grandson that inherited the business? No. Sure, some people had to take risks, but then again, how do you value that risk in terms of money? Not to mention that we can do it without risks. We established our entire post-WW2 economy within the framweork of state planning. No one took big loans, no one risked his/her home, yet we developed big and succesfull companies, that are still alive and well! There are plenty alternatives to the capitalist economy, and the capitalist way of doing business.

Judas Priest are not a corporation. They are a band, and their greatness comes from skill and musicianship. You took my statement well out of context here, since I think you know perfectly well what sort of "greatness" I was refering to, since we were tlaking about economy and big corporations.
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[_strat_] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:49:49 AM 
He does, and he is being exploited by the Coca Cola corporation to appear in their adds. Ever wondered why he is all derssed up in red? Comrade Clause will be the leader of the new world revolution!
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[TIMBONI] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:30:14 PM 
I really cannot believe what I am reading.  If I understand you correctly, you want Robin Hood.  Take from the rich and give to the poor for no other reason than that the poor want what the rich have.  You state that the working class " should be getting what they earn".  Who judges what they earn.  I'll tell you who.  The employer that hired them at a certain wage for a certain job.  The employee either accepts this or not.  The power is actually with the worker at this point.  If the worker takes the job, DON'T COMPLAIN ! 

You also state that "upper clases that get rediculously more than they earn".  It's not entirely about "earning".  It's also about risk.  I believe HB has already gone into this, but to cut to the chase it's gambling.  Someone risked their money, home, savings, future, etc on an idea and they deserve the lion share of the return for that.  Their willingness to risk themselves for this return created the jobs for the workers.  If people did not risk, the jobs would not exist.

Now let's get to "stiffling greatness  .  .  .  why the fuck not ? ".  Let's make it obvious.  We are all on a Judas Priest site chatting.  This site would not exist because the band would not exist.  They would never, AND I DO MEAN NEVER, have gone through what they did if they were required to share it all with those that did not experience those sacrifices with them.  Without the possibility of great reward, there will never be any great sacrifice.  Thus we all become mediocre and plain and the world SUCKS  for all of us.
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[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:32:58 PM 
Oh my dear friend, I did not mean to appear misleading ( two "L"'s in fallacious, by the way...HA!!!!!) . I am simply aware that this is an impasse for us. Would not be the first time and certainly will not be the last! We could continue to debate and counter but it is really a study in futility. I will accept that you have your opinion and I will have mine and we can let it go at that.

So, NEW topic. .... ?   Does Santa Claus really exist??  HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[Head banger] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:00:55 PM 
start an airline or major asembly plant with less?  cant do it.
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[_strat_] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:44:33 PM 
...assuming that there was absolutely no way of risking far less, and gradualy getting to the same result.
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[Head banger] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:42:00 PM 
took the risk that endangered everyone.  but if he didnt take that risk, all those people wouldnt have jobs.  and if he didnt take said risk, the car would still be an item for the upper class, not the average.  sorry, went back to ford.  no risk, no reward.  everyone is equal, and has nothing
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[Head banger] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:38:54 PM 
sure, here you can beg, or work.  simple choice. 
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[_strat_] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:33:32 PM 
Ok, leave if you want, but I will still answer this, and maybe someone else will pick up the flag...

THAT is terribly falacious. The whole point that I was making about the subject of capitalism is that we (or you or me, whichever way you put it), should be getting what we earn. Not to share it with the upper classes that get ridicilously more than they earn, since more often than not they earn nothing at all.  What "greater good"? What "plight of the struggling labourer"? Sure, both these things could be used to describe socialism, as something which aims to achieve the "greater good" of all by fighting the "plight of the struggling labourer", but its really down to we getting what we earn. The difference between the two of us here would be that you think that capitalism can give that opportunity, while I do not, and I think I listed plenty of reasons for that. "Spreading the wealth" is imo a part of this, for reasons that I have already presented as well.

"Stiffling greatness"... Why the fuck not? If the great cannot be great without the help of mediocre ( as is the case)... Should they be great at all? And of course, how do you generaly define "better"? Is someone that is prepared to take risks that endanger him/herself and tons of other people really great... Or just plain irresponsible and dumb? And, when does one accomplish greatness? Is it when one has a huge corporation? What is so great about that?
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[_strat_] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:19:45 PM 
In a predominantly capitalist world, would they have a choice? Also, there is always Venezuela...
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