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Thread #103880 Message #2122160
Posted By: John Hardly
08-Aug-07 - 09:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Politics- Are We Gender Voters?
Subject: RE: BS: US Politics- Are We Gender Voters?
Yes, but people can then choose not to buy the product, or they can go to a competing corporation.
And things are WAY more fluid than Bobert's model of worker vs. wealthy. The workers are quite capable of having their own wealth-producing industry. They can (and most often do) own the corporation for which they work. Many people have made themselves quite wealthy by their labor -- or their knowledge (a commodity that Bobert also ignores in his model of worker vs. wealthy)
I am probably below the poverty line myself. I work for myself, not a corporation. When it came time to decide whether to incorporate myself, there was no value in it for me. But I own a small amount of stock as part of a mutual fund (in a retirement account that hasn't grown in over ten years). Most people -- workers -- own way more stock than I.