Comments on: Why we need a class war

By: Lisa KS

Lisa KS — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:08:16 +0000

Hee! I was hoping it was from the End of Time series, I hardly ever meet anybody else who has read them!

By: Ironed Orchid

Ironed Orchid — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:34:30 +0000

Lisa Kansas: It’s like The Iron Orchid from Michael Moorcock’s End of of Time series, but much sillier.

By: Lisa Kansas

Lisa Kansas — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:07:57 +0000

Ironed Orchid, I have to ask where you got that name…

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:34:31 +0000

Having just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I’d say living hand to mouth and not being able to save or invest was definitely the definition of poverty for WWI-era Brooklyn. Whoever these fuckers are who think it’s not need to try it.

By: Ironed Orchid

Ironed Orchid — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:33:56 +0000

They’re right about one thing: living on the average wage may not technically count as poverty, but for many people it means living from hand to mouth and not being able to save or invest.

Regardless of how many extra hours one works.

By: Lisa Kansas

Lisa Kansas — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:15:04 +0000

Mmm…you gotta get to know these folks intimately to understand ‘em. I have in the past…what they mean by they work harder is that they work smarter. As in, they save like demons and then start investing. Their blind spots in terms of why everyone else can’t do the same are fascinatingly monumental. I may write a piggyback blog and I blame Sabotabby.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:33:57 +0000

Word. I’m finally getting around to accepting that regardless of all the blood, sweat and tears that I expended busting my ass to get a science degree, I will never have a career in my field or make more than 22,000 dollars a year unless I go bust my ass some more at grad school.

More disturbing? My professors making 40,000 dollars a year, despite the 70-hour workweeks they regularly pull, the gazillion tasks they have to do to keep their jobs, and the research they do that benefits humanity.

Sigh. Life is definitely not freaking fair, is it?

By: GumbyAnne

GumbyAnne — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:04:43 +0000

One of the people interviewed in the linked article justifies the huge salary gap because these financial professionals sometimes have to pull all-nighters to get work done.

He really thinks that that is such an amazing thing that ordinary folks have no experience with and justifies a half-million dollar per year salary.

He ought to tell that to pretty much every college student who works. Or your run-of-the mill parent with an occasionally sick or fussy kid.

I make 20,000 dollars per year and I know what a damn all-nighter is like. I guess somebody owes me a check.

By: violet

violet — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:40:38 +0000

But Scrooge looks so happy! Surely you wouldn’t take away his gold coins. He loves them like children, every one.

By: Thene

Thene — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:01:51 +0000

Fuck, I just read more of the article. "I don't think we should sit here and say London should be guilty for being successful." London? London? You mean, this London? The London where the minimum wage is a joke and even non-immigrants are too squeezed to even speak up about that? Where my aunt, for all she has a PhD and two jobs, scrapes by from month to month by diddling her housing benefit? Go stab yourself in the head, you sick little moran.