How is it possible that, with American unemployment rates so low, there seems to be such an appalling lack of staff in key trades–in everything from retail to healthcare?
So often we hear, “No one wants to work anymore,” but does that really make sense? People would rather live on ramen cooked on hotplates in their parents’ basements? Live under freeway overpasses?
As suggested at left, it’s more likely that “Few people want to work anymore under truly oppressive conditions.”
Perhaps the truth is that life in the corporate world, unless you’re the CEO, has gone from stressful to hellish–within just the last few decades. From 1978 to 2022, CEO compensation shot up 1,209.2% compared with a 15.3% increase in a typical worker’s compensation. In 2022, CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker in contrast to 1965 when they were paid 21 times as much.
It’s hard to rejoice for young people, and especially for young parents, whose kids will grow up into an economic world that’s hard to imagine.
The drawing here reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother in the early days of 2GreenEnergy when she saw that my focus had become an ongoing effort to improve the wellbeing of all the planet’s inhabitants–now and into the future.
She asked me, “Why don’t you just live your life?”
I explained, “This is my life.”
“How can there not be a way to make him legal?” a citizen asks.
Sadly, this is what being a conservative is all about in today’s America, i.e., you think abuse is fine, until it impacts your own life.
I agree with Joseph T. Stegall at left, but the main reason Trump needs to face justice is for the good of the country–and the entire world.
If Trump dies a “controversial figure” rather than a vicious criminal, the United States will never recover from the drubbing it’s taken on the world stage and the incredible amount of harm that’s been inflicted on the American people.
Moreover, failure to prosecute Trump would set the stage for the next sociopath to come along and take us down every further. Keep in mind that the next guy is probably not going to be as incompetent as Trump.
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