When 25 year olds talk about >200k total comp and there are may 40'year olds who don't get that much - I think we are in a bad world . Rural America is maybe right - the prosperity is spread unevenly and trump policies will reduce that gap - enough of greed , enough of entitlement- its time to work hard for money.
Fuck off Uber assholes. Always spewing nonsense and shit.
Projection :)
How will it reduce the gap? By lowering taxes even more on people who are at the top end of the earning scale? By lowering corporate taxes?
The Trump plan actually increases taxes on people in the lowest federal tax bracket. Because you know, people making less than 10k a year have too much money.
There's a reason for that. I write a line of code that gets executed millions of times and drives a ton of revenue for Uber. A union worker in a GM plant turning the same screw 1000 times a day is nowhere near as productive as me. If anything, tech workers should be paid more than they currently are, given their extreme productivity. Thinking someone deserves more with no justification other than age is just entitlement mentality. I came from working class parents and had to sacrifice big time to get to where I am.
There are many who can do that - so don't think you are special my dear. You are a greedy asshole colleague :)
People like this is why the world is the way it is. Everyone plays an important role in society and without them the world would cease to exist. So you are basically saying that your 1 line of code for a company that is considered a luxury for most is more important than a factory worker who plays an important role in creating products that most people rely on for every-day living??
Eye roll.
I am already working hard
Please tell me the policies that trump is enacting to give the rust belt back their $16/hr jobs? Income inequality is not about us v them. We earn our pay and their jobs are gone. The income inequality issue is how executive pay and line workers grow in disparity, how losses are socialized (see bailouts) but profits are privatized (see CEO compensation). If you think trump gives a shit about that guy who lost his job in Ohio, you're kidding yourself. It was a platform he ran to win. Albeit very successfully.
Prosperity is uneven because productivity is uneven.
Instead of trying to get the jobs back, which do not exist anymore, or will soon disappear, why not run programs for those workers to train in Stem courses. They will then be able to use that knowledge to earn the "big bucks" themselves plus we will be able to fill those empty positions with local talent, for which we have to hire from outside US.
what about the uneven prosperity of Trump himself? u think he gives a fuck abt poor people. he has been conning the system for years. he is going to get richer with policies aimed at making him rich and grow his family businesses while enforcing laws like Muslim ban and building the wall to keep media's attention away from it. he is more obsessed about looking good by spreading lies abt voter fraud and crowd size. and in his mind SNL is as bad as ISIS. so he doesn't give a fuck . he is in the business of getting rich.
I will speak for myself, and a lot of others I'm sure, and say countless 80 hr work weeks and long study sessions got me where I'm at. Moving to high cost of living locations and not living where I grew up in the Midwest of the US where my wife and I's families are at. Expensive student loans, joining the military and getting 25% of my college paid by the Montgomery GI Bill, and only making 10 dollars an hour while going to school full time after the Marines. Still continuing school and taking more student loans after getting a job to work on my masters while working nights and weekends. I come from immigrant parents and I'm white on paper but am Middle Eastern in a post 9/11 era. I had to pay for everything myself after the age of 18. My parents didn't have money to give me for college or a leg up. My father had no connections. My hard work got me above $200k/yr. I'm constantly improving my technical skills because I have to for my work like everyone else in our field. So what I say to people in rural America that say the prosperity is spread unevenly? Go work for the life you want and quit complaining about it because it's not going to be handed to you.
replace "rural" ( which implies poor and white) with "inner city" (which implies poor and black) and see if you'd say things differently. " quit complaining about it because it's not going to be handed to you, Jamal" sounds unbelievably racist, right?
I was talking about the demographic the OP was talking about in the original post which specifically said Rural America. I don't care if the person is white, black or neon green. My comments stand for all people in all walks of life.