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In reply to the discussion: In 1981, I was a full time stock clerk at an Ohio Big Bear grocery store making 12.60 an hour [View all]Attilatheblond
(2,421 posts)'Young men are not getting married and having children so we are running out of workers.' Well, DUH! Young women are also not getting married and birthin' no babies too. How can any of them AFFORD to move out, start independent lives, pay rent or mortgage and feed some children, let alone pay for child care when wages do not come close to keeping up with real cost of living?
The ownership class has killed the geese that laid the golden eggs, because since Reagan "GREED IS GOOD" and corporate officers' pay had eaten away all hope of the workforce ever having any chance of making a decent living in comparison to the costs of living here. And now the ownership class is in a dither because we are soon to be a declining population of exploitable geese laying the golden eggs.
Amazing how friken stupid so many extremely rich people can be. Only a matter of time before hungry hoards storm the gated communities and dine on fat cats.