If I defend the right of corporations to exist does that mean I love money?
Let me make some things clear to you. Even though I was offered to go into management at FedEx several times I didn't because I view that company as basically dishonest. They're willing to pad their profits by lying to people that better pay is coming, just hang in there. But they only wanted to string us along while they built up FedEx Ground to increase profits. And are now in the process of shedding regular employees in favor of low pay, no benefit contractor employees.
If I loved money I would have left FedEx a long time ago.
I have gotten by on a $22k pension with the occasional temp job for 7 years. During that time I paid for my elderly father's tv service. I gave my mother $150 a month. I paid off my wife's debts other than her mortgage that she brought into our marriage 10 years ago. That was $8k. I paid $7k for a bathroom remodel we needed because she caused a flood in our home. I now give our mother $200 a month and pay for my dad's internet and his annual newspaper subscription. Luckily for me my SS just started and Capital One gave me my first SS payment today, two days early. In a few minutes I will be calling a medical office to give them $500 as I strive to finally get my debts paid from having a heart attack in 2022. I will be spending all of my newfound wealth to throw at bills this year with hopes of paying off my debt and saving some money as my FedEx pension drops from $1840 a month to $117 a month when I turn 67.
So does that sound like I'm so in love with money that I greedily keep it all for myself? My brother's income is almost 4 times what mine is and his wife makes even more. Yet he refuses to help my mother other than a few hundred dollars a couple of times over the years. She's 80 and her SS income puts her right at the poverty line. My dad and I(They've been divorced 52 years) give her $350 a month and she gets food stamps.
So let me ask, do you know enough about how markets work to say that UPS is evil as you said the other day? You'd not have much luck finding any large corporation giving hundreds of thousands of employees that much income and good benefits while dealing with the demands of stockholders and stiff competition from other companies wanting that market share. These ideas some indulge in thinking there's a better system out there have led some countries down terrible paths and you can't point to one purely socialist country that has been successful. Do you love money so much that you are willing to destroy our system, risking putting billions of people in poverty, just to find that fair and just is anything but that? And are you willing to give honest answers to these questions or will you ignore them out of fear of looking bad?
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