Poll of the Day > American Capitalism

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Why is capitalism in America so brutal on workers?

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bruta

What

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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

What

brutal!

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Protestant work ethic instilled a desire to be surfs into the public unconscious.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

Why is capitalism in America so brutal on workers?

why wouldn't it be TC?

At least it isn't like the workforce in ussr....

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It's in capitalism's nature to become brutal to its workers. The USA is just further along the path of capitalism than most 1st world countries.

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Yup so brutal that I have the last two weeks of the year off, and I basically have unlimited vacation / wfh time.
Only brutal if you're 18-24, and choose not to get a college education.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

Why is capitalism in America so brutal on workers?

Multiple factors but, I suspect, the single greatest influence is that American workers just don't know any better. They don't bother to learn about other people and cultures (especially since they're working so much) and thusly don't realize that things *could* be better. Plus there is a massive anti-communism strain in America which makes anything that would benefit the worker highly suspicious, religious grounding, and a mentality that you shouldn't 'rock the boat' and cause problems. Especially since a lot of places practice 'at-will' employment which basically means your boss can fire you at any time for any reason. When you have a family to support this means your boss can basically go 'work an extra 10 hours a week for free or be fired' and you'll be encouraged to accept because, if you don't, your kids go hungry.

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Capitalism puts money over all else, a heavily flawed logic.

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It isn't, the average American is just a whiny bitch

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BUMPED2002 posted...

Why is capitalism in America so brutal on workers?

It's not?

Lokchan posted...

Protestant work ethic instilled a desire to be surfs into the public unconscious.

1) That would be "serfs"
2) Serfs and Protestantism have nothing to do with each other
3) Most of the aspects of the Protestant work ethic also have nothing to do with capitalism, it's a separate cultural issue that would be present under other systems.

Unbridled9 posted...

Multiple factors but, I suspect, the single greatest influence is that American workers just don't know any better. They don't bother to learn about other people and cultures (especially since they're working so much) and thusly don't realize that things *could* be better.

This needs a laugh track.

Unbridled9 posted...

Especially since a lot of places practice 'at-will' employment which basically means your boss can fire you at any time for any reason.

That's generally true across the world, although the US has more restrictions than some other nations when it comes to the reasons.

Unbridled9 posted...

When you have a family to support this means your boss can basically go 'work an extra 10 hours a week for free or be fired' and you'll be encouraged to accept because, if you don't, your kids go hungry.

Which basically isn't a thing and, the times when it is a thing, would also happen in other places even under other systems because it's an example of an employer ignoring laws (with the exception of salaried managers who are often exempt from overtime)

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Ive been playing adventure communist on my phone, its pretty funny

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The money is going somewhere, but it's not to you.





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Go back to whatever image board you crawled out of.

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Unbridled9 posted...

Multiple factors but, I suspect, the single greatest influence is that American workers just don't know any better. They don't bother to learn about other people and cultures (especially since they're working so much) and thusly don't realize that things *could* be better. Plus there is a massive anti-communism strain in America which makes anything that would benefit the worker highly suspicious, religious grounding, and a mentality that you shouldn't 'rock the boat' and cause problems. Especially since a lot of places practice 'at-will' employment which basically means your boss can fire you at any time for any reason. When you have a family to support this means your boss can basically go 'work an extra 10 hours a week for free or be fired' and you'll be encouraged to accept because, if you don't, your kids go hungry.

I believe it's because American Capitalism was born on slave plantations. America's capitalist system has now spawned the worst work conditions arguably since slavery and especially since the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation because that is the birthplace.

Let this marinate for a moment, in Iceland, 90 percent of wage and salaried workers belong to trade unions authorized to fight for living wages and fair working conditions.

When workers have no voice i.e. unions, ultimately they began to see wages and benefits shrink which has been the case in America since the late 1970s.

Only 10 percent of American wage and salaried workers carry union cards. Inevitably, and history has proven this, when hourly paid workers have no voice, soon after they start to see wages and benefits begin to shrink. That's ultimately what has happened in America since the late 1970s which explains why wages in America have been stagnant for over 4 decades.

Historians have pointed persuasively to the gnatty fields of Georgia and Alabama, to the cotton houses and slave auction blocks, as the birthplace of Americas low-road approach to capitalism.

Slavery was undeniably a font of phenomenal wealth and no one can deny that.

By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Cotton grown and picked by enslaved workers was the nations most valuable export.

But keep this in mind, those slaves who created that wealth with their free slave labor did not benefit from that work. Their labor created wealth for others and that's essentially what we have today in America's Capitalistic society.

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captpackrat posted...

The money is going somewhere, but it's not to you.

I beg to differ. Otherwise the productivity gains are mostly a result of things like automation, not labor, so why would the two be tied? The workers aren't the cause of that productivity gain. Otherwise globalism has helped to push down workers' wages by outsourcing the jobs where labor is still useful or cheaper.


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*laughs in Chinese*

SunWuKung420 posted...

Capitalism puts money over all else, a heavily flawed logic.

No, it doesnt. It allows an individual to realize his/her own value and pursue their own chosen path the way they see fit. American capitalism has literally made much of the entire world a better place overall.

Korruptor posted...

*laughs in Chinese*

farts in spanish

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Mead posted...

farts in spanish

*Taunts in French*

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BeerOnTap posted...

No, it doesnt. It allows an individual to realize his/her own value and pursue their own chosen path the way they see fit. American capitalism has literally made much of the entire world a better place overall.

It factually puts money first, that just happens to be an extremely productive system.
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