Unions aren’t a ready solution. 22 states are right to work states, the others aren’t. It’s these states that Unions thrive. Out of states most workers in unions are there not by choice. You can only get jobs if you join a union. These unions take from your pay check (along with taxes and in some cases state income taxes) in order to fund the union organizers. Unions are corporations too. The top level administrators get wealthy off of hard working laborers. I live in Tennessee, back in 94, I worked for the airport, for a major airline catering company. One catch. You had to be in the union. They took fees out whether you worked or not. If you got sick and missed work, you payed. If You filed any grievances, you were widely ignored by the union. Except on pay day. No, unions are not the answer, my friend. Unions are part of the problem. They’re just as bad as special interest groups, in that, they by politicians to remain where they are. They author their own laws and try to have them pushed through by the same said politicians.

I would like to know what they DO for a living. I already know how much they make and how much greater it is than what I make. But what do they do? When they get up in the morning, where do they go and what activities to they engage in that earn them a living?

Does he really do the work of over 7,000 men? Mind you this is just the interest alone. The top ten private land holders in the U.S. own a collective of land that if gathered and made a state would be larger than Maryland. Is what they do or have done really so vastly superior to what others are doing? Did they really morally “earn” it? Or have they simply taken advantage of corrupted systems and privatized a disproportionate sum of the incentive to work leaving others (the bottom %’ages) without the incentive to work.

At the bottom we see the “Iron (or Subsistence) Law of Wages” playing out, but at the top we see “The New Midas Touch Law of Elite Wages” as more extravagance than the world has ever known.

What they don’t realize is that by keeping the profits to themselves they guarantee a world unfit for them to enjoy their wealth, requiring ever more isolation from the ills they cause. Whereas had they chosen to socialize profits equitably they would still have as much wealth as they could reasonably use and yet be surrounded by so many other happy, successful, fulfilled people that their own lives would be much happier.

They are the new owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and doing no better with it.