Author: Olivia
Does anyone know of good books that explain how the uber-wealthy benefit from ensuring low-income people stay low-income? I was trying to explain this to a friend re: why hospital executives are anti-union and actually benefit from their staff not having more financial options, etc. Thanks for any recommendations!
YOU GUYS. Remember the letter from the manager who wouldn't let their best employee go to her college graduation so she quit on the spot? After all these years, the employee stumbled across the letter and just emailed me to say what a jerk the boss was.https://t.co/tUJaOtH5qC— Ask a Manager (@AskAManager) February 7, 2022
Let's look at some of the numbers regarding wealth re-distribution in the US and how things would look if we would confiscate the wealth of the super rich and give it to the normal person. The main numbers is that there are about 329.5 million Americans. Of those there are a little more than 20 million people that are millionaires (20.27 million people). Then we have 724 billionaires. Let's start with just looking at the top 25 wealthiest Americans according to this list. They are worth a total of $2,049.7 billion. If we were to take all of that money except for $1 billion for each of them we could give every non-millionaire American $6,548 right now. In the 2021 Forbes 400 list of the 400 wealthiest Americans it says they have a total of $4.5 trillion between them. None of these people have less than $2.9 billion in net…
I am a construction worker who recently switched jobs. Part of the reason is because my new employer focuses on a lot of “public projects”. My former wage, doing the same kind of work was far less than my new wage ($92/hour). I about crapped my pants when I figured out how much more I could make. This new company works on ‘public’ construction projects like roads and government buildings. All of this Public work is covered under this federal construction minimum wage law (which supersedes regular minimum wage law) called Davis Bacon although it only applies when the Federal Govt is paying for all or some of the project. Anyways all employers have to pay there workers these ‘construction minimum wages’ on these government projects. Don’t get screwed over. If any of you work on the Interstate, build post offices, or other government buildings then click the link below…
