Wednesday, June 12, 2013

On sale: all workers at 15% off

Oy vey, The Guardian again, and this time it ain't secret, but nonetheless depressing.

Workers suffer deepest cut in real wages since records began, IFS shows, is the headline of an article that gives details about wages and salaries in State 51.

Don't expect an anti-capitalist rant from the K-Landnews, we are not in the mood for that.

By now, we have seen similar studies from the U.S. and even from Europe's golden goose.

The K-Landnews contributor writing this post sometimes calls himself a "trust fund kid" because he managed to save enough cash to live comfortably for a while without any fresh economic green juice coming in.

If you ask what the experience was like and what lessons he learned, the answer is short and simple.

The world would be a very different place if everybody had enough cash to live on for even a year or two without worries.

Of course, that's "not how the world works", as a study of Wall Street folks recently demonstrated.

The poor guys had problems to make ends meet at a salary of a million dollars a year.

It is unlikely that you are a reader of this blog if you make that much but, on the off chance we can preach to the converted, here goes.

Once a month,  think of the retiree who gets up at 3 in the morning to deliver newspapers or to survey gas prices so you can check on your iPhone where to save a cent a gallon.

One more thing:
If you work at an intelligence agency, do not go to your boss and say we can automate this. There are people out there who need real work.

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