# As a Progressive, I am throwing in the towel

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912 "2020-11-06T18:31:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912/182 "2020-12-05T23:23:27Z")

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> Right, and that’s why I work harder and longer than they do, and I get less compensation than they do.
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> If I wasn’t “stealing” their surplus value, they wouldn’t have a job at all.

They shouldn’t need you to give them a job in the first place, like you are some kind of benevolent benefactor, when you exploit people by not giving them the full value of their labor.

> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> What would motivate _you_ to pay for the privilege of working 100 hours a week for 2 years? What would motivate _you_ to continue to work 80+ hours a week for around 5 dollars an hour for the next 6?
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> What would motivate _you_ to risk everything that you’ve worked for your entire life, to risk your time and your skills, to risk failure and ruin, on the off chance that your risk and hard work would create a successful enterprise?

You chose to take on that risk in a capitalist system where failure has real and disastrous consequences, and as such you feel entitled to more than the workers under your employ. And that’s what it is, entitlement.

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