Jobs with Dignity

It is an odd thing about perception- dignity in the workplace.  A man with a broom in the blue light aisle at Walmart has no dignity.  He works for low wages and his employers, most customers and probably his family make sure he has low self esteem, a lowered sense of worth than even these meager circumstances bring.  Same man as the owner of a small shoppe( i add the  e  to show class  or classe ;)) and he has a job with dignity. His employer- himself- regards him as essential to success and every minor task is a brick in the wall of this solid business.So may this be a key to the economic future of the US ?  Dignity means being in the ownership-- somewhere, some how--  to justify all of the rest that we may endure.

 The politics of this day are tawdry, one political party has been essentially sold to the low bidder, the Republicans now exist as the man with the broom for a polyglot of rich- mostly white- men.  Some of these right -wing angels ( really devil is more like it) simply have an exalted sense of self - fed by billions- and surrounded by ass-kissers, think that every bit of verbal drool from their lips should be etched and handed to Moses.  Well, Moses in this case is a political Party leading us INTO BONDAGE.  Some want to abolish the minimum wage so that we can be paid as Chinese or Indian workers( maybe $3.00 per hour)  or be free to compete with each other to work more for less- the Crab pot theory.  I have not heard a return to Chattel Slavery but this is the crew that would do it for a buck,--Republicans may be high priced whores but they deliver. It is difficult to imagine the voter base that supports unbridled warfare abroad and enforced poverty at home, I would like to meet some of these people-- check for a strong aroma of Sulfur!

Thus, the equation must self correct. This would be a powerful move for the federal government to boost employment.  Rescue some of the skeletons in our dying industrial base.  The goal would be that more and more, small companies grow large and would be run by people who invest care and give fair incomes to their worker/partners.  More and more employees will own companies. Some will buy their employers out- Employee Stock Options and purchases; some will arrive as cooperatives, where everyone pushes a broom but also has a seat in the company Board room- a trend that bodes well for employment but also for healthy competition for employees who have been systematically downsized into people who will pretty much do or take anything to get a paycheck
There is an awful trend in the US and it comes from globalization.  If we reward companies for seeking low wage labor abroad, then eventually they demand low wage labor here.  We do not wish to be agents of our own demise, and lowering wages is economic demise.  Wage earners are the job creators in America.