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No way. Today there is far more to be bought, and people do find a lot more to buy. There's household electronics. Computers, phones, tables. Big screen colour TVs- I was three years out of uni before I even had a B&W TV. 20 channels FTA plus lots of pay TV channels, PVR and surround...

I had free uni, granted. But that was a time when only a minority went to uni. You had to do quite well at school to get in. And many of the young men only slightly older than me got given free government jobs. In Vietnam. Only a change of government just months before I turned 18 made...

If there were unions then this wouldn't be happening. Unions arose from exploitation of workers many years ago, and took action to reduce the exploitation.

In all of my years on both sides of employment I have only had one direct contact with unions. I was labouring during Uni vacation (many years back) and due to a mistake I made I was fired. I wasn't a union member, but the union still approached management on my behalf to discuss the matter. As...

The majority of my employees were students who also preferred working outside normal hours. There was a provision in my workplace agreement that, in return for a slightly higher hourly rate for every hour worked, overtime hours would not invoke penalties. This was above board and approved by...