I’ve been employed by rich people, poor people, and by the pooled resources of a bunch of people, both rich and poor.
Everyone I currently work for privately qualifies for some kind of public assistance despite their military pensions, and they are the best folks I’ve ever worked for with the exception of Alfa Anderson and Hector Calderon.
The cities with functioning police departments saw those departments bond with protestors and very little mayhem resulted in those places. Cities where police behave like an occupying force got messed up. Cities which allowed police to behave like counter protesters lit fuses in their basements which sooner or later will blow up.
Livable minimum wages is a very good idea.
As for your idea about money and class, it’s easy to see how you were tethered and shorn for your entire productive life.
It would make you pitiable if you weren’t so tight with the fucking Nazis.
I tried to be nice to everyone..."everyone in the world is a lovely person".
All I got in the workplace and life was walked all over.
Must be you.
Somebody liked the work I was doing pro bono for kids and gave me a paycheck for the next two years, no strings attached.
At another point in time, I was working in the temp pool and a manager in a different department saw my work and offered me a job, then two more times when she shifted places she brought me over.
Somebody I helped on the internet requested my email, but instead of a thank you note, I got PayPal money from her a couple times.
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I charge a sliding scale for my services, with the bottom at $0. Sometimes people have paid me 150% of the top of my scale as they thought it was too low. Other times, I teach for nothing, because the kids need the help even when their families can't afford it.
Yeah, there are scummy people out there, Bambi. As far as I can tell, from your
self-description, you are among the folks who make things worse for others, not better. Tony, despite his bigotry, sounds like somebody who works every day to try to make the world better for others.
The world's been pretty good to me throughout my adult life, probably better than I deserve, but I try to use my privilege to help others to live up to what I have been given. Sometimes I succeed.
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