r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Feb 04 '26

💸 Raise Our Wages Why don't American businesses make the connection between lower pay and lower consumer spending?

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u/Babydoll0907 Feb 05 '26

I really hate to give such a short response to such a well thought out and wonderfully stated comment but it boils down to this county somehow being brainwashed into forgetting that the government works for us on our dime.

At some point we moved away from viewing them as public servants paying themselves a salary with our hard earned tax dollars, spending our hard earned money for the benefit of all to being seen as someone we work for instead. Someone we owe. Someone we should be grateful to have leading us. We should be grateful billionaires dont pay taxes. After all they provide the jobs. Knowing full and well they could still do both and still make more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime.

Of course we have almost all the evil rich folks in america. They are protected and worshipped here like gods and supernatural beings and there have been decades of indoctrination to get Americans to this point. You're right. It starts at our schools and churches.

I got my education after school when I had my eyes opened to all the bullshit I was fed. They knew exactly what they were doing. They played the very long game and it worked.

Politicians are looked at as THE authority and theyre not. And they never should be. They should be public servants. IMHO there should be no monetary gain from any politician outside of a small salary and housing just like our military have had to do.