Exploitation

The left accuses rich business owners of exploiting their workers for personal gain but it never seems to apply to:

1. Sports figures high salaries exploiting John and Jane Doe when buying tickets

2. Movie stars exploiting John and Jane Doe for movie prices

3. Entertainers exploiting John and Jane Doe when going to concerts or buying CD's

4. Multi-million dollar lottery winners exploiting John and Jane Doe by contributing to making lotteries more popular

And even John and Jane Doe are guilty of exploitation themselves by:

1. Paying a neighbor less money to fix their car instead of going to a repair shop

2. Paying Melissa $20 to babysit the kids for four hours

3. Paying Bob $20 to mow their lawn

4. paying Tom $20 to shovel snow

5. paying someone a pittance to watch house and pets while they are on vacation

Bottom line is, everyone does it but the left only seems to rail against business owners. The truth is business owners use their workers to make money and workers use the business owners to make money. Superstar athletes, entertainers, and other celebrities use John and Jane Doe to make money and John and Jane Doe used athletes, entertainers, and celebrities for entertainment. Mr. Smith uses Bob to mow his lawn and Bob uses Mr. Smith to earn money. They're all doing the same thing so why is it only the rich business owners who get called out for it?

Moderate Right said:

The left accuses rich business owners of exploiting their workers for personal gain but it never seems to apply to:

1. Sports figures high salaries exploiting John and Jane Doe when buying tickets

2. Movie stars exploiting John and Jane Doe for movie prices

3. Entertainers exploiting John and Jane Doe when going to concerts or buying CD's

4. Multi-million dollar lottery winners exploiting John and Jane Doe by contributing to making lotteries more popular

And even John and Jane Doe are guilty of exploitation themselves by:

1. Paying a neighbor less money to fix their car instead of going to a repair shop

2. Paying Melissa $20 to babysit the kids for four hours

3. Paying Bob $20 to mow their lawn

4. paying Tom $20 to shovel snow

5. paying someone a pittance to watch house and pets while they are on vacation

Bottom line is, everyone does it but the left only seems to rail against business owners. The truth is business owners use their workers to make money and workers use the business owners to make money. Superstar athletes, entertainers, and other celebrities use John and Jane Doe to make money and John and Jane Doe used athletes, entertainers, and celebrities for entertainment. Mr. Smith uses Bob to mow his lawn and Bob uses Mr. Smith to earn money. They're all doing the same thing so why is it only the rich business owners who get called out for it?

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There are two basic ways for government to enforce "proper" income redistribution - progressive taxation (to fund "public assistance" programs) and the unfunded mandate. Obviously the very rich sports stars, entertainment and other individual wonders (lottery winners, authors and inventors) can be targets of massive income taxation but they are virtually immune from unfunded mandates to "properly" compensate their employees since they have few (if any) of them that they pay (hire?) directly.

By using unfunded mandates the clever politicians can force only "large" employers (evil corporations?) to do things that the other (good?) rich folks (like themselves?) need not do. This is politically cool because folks like sports and entertainment "heroes" will support that "social justice" policy but would perhaps balk at supporting higher taxation of themselves. That is why clever folks (liberal politicians?) propose more unfunded mandates and very specific (stock trade) new taxes - that helps to keep the public "heroes" on their side.

As far as offering less than the federal MW to get "chores" done, that is again taking advantage of not being considered to be an evil employer (large or otherwise). In a democracy it is important for politicians to get the votes of many (regular folks) to take more from the few (evil?) rich while still not actually taxing those (more) that support you.