The few people with the majority of shares risked their money investing in the company. That allowed the company to go forward hiring people, allowing them to make a living. The investors took the risk, reaped the rewards. Employees are there to help their company make money so that the shareholders reap those rewards. The employee should be expected to be treated fairly in exchange, and if he feels he isn't he's free to work elsewhere. Somehow you got the idea that employees deserve to reap all the rewards the investors do without taking the risks. That they are owed a great living. And somehow can't seem to grasp that employees are paid according to their ability to help a company make money. If you have no skills, do work anyone can do, you get paid less. For a better future develop marketable skills. If you aren't willing to do that you take what you can get. But wailing all day long about how unfair it all is when it's a proven system that works is just being lazy. Do some traveling yourself overseas. Go to Eastern Europe and see how they're recovering from communism. Where there is prosperity it's a direct result of their implementing capitalism. And they have a long way to go. Yes there are exploitive companies in the U.S. and being lied to and manipulated is never fun. But overall if you visit a lot of places overseas you'll realize that even the poor have it pretty good in the U.S. unless they do something stupid like criminal acts or doing drugs.
a few people own this system and the country, not to mention control it.
workers take risks as well. i want a coop system where employees share the risk and rewards.
asking a company to treat you fairly is like asking a slave holder to stop cracking the whip. they banished slavery for a reason because it encourages certain behaviors we eventually realized were immoral. ditto for capitalism.
capitalism doesnt actually work, its completely incompatible with the environment. im not sure you can reform capitalism.
the poor do not have it good in america; no healthcare for one, tuition is insane.
prosperity is probably a direct result of people struggling for it, because otherwise the prosperity goes directly to the people who already own everything, like it currently has. america is worse off these days.
the market doesnt work in terms of pay either. drug dealers, banksters, CEOs make a killing. scientists doing research to save lives make peanuts, ditto for teachers.