tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post8528943870229404917..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Hi Tech Sweat ShopsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-16991806925514870732016-04-12T13:09:41.839-04:002016-04-12T13:09:41.839-04:00"How do we bring an end to this? Can American...<i>"How do we bring an end to this? Can Americans be brought to support European-style job security rules?"</i><br /><br />Considering the cocniptions spawned in the average American when they catch even a hint of "socialism", I'm not that this behavior can be ended any time soon.<br /><br />It ultimately boils down to which values we as a people choose to promote and tolerate. We have a pretty deeply imbedded streak of selfishness and ruthlessness in America currently which is going to take a lot of work to uproot and replace with more wholesome notions.<br /><br />Unfortunately, I suspect change will come, as it so often does, in a generational wave. Young people growing up with these awful behaviors and values will perhaps recoil from and reject them, and work to supplant them. Or maybe they'll just accept them as "the way of the world", and grudingly live with them. Maybe it'll take things getting far worse to motivate a pushback against it all. Who can say?<br /><br />Possibly the starting point for leveraging away from this situation will come alongside the minimum wage debate. In the course of demanding a fair living wage for all Americans, people might also start demanding job security and fair working conditions. But there's going to be a lot of resistance - America by and large hates workers, hates unions, hates regulations, hates "big government", and so on.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com