All smoke and mirrors.
My sister-in-law is still waiting, after three years, for the famous worker's justice here after being fired the day after she announced her pregnancy to the owner of the restaurant where she worked 14 hour days as the only chef, the only food preparer, the only food purchaser and the only dishwasher, all by herself (yes, that was part of the denuncia she presented via her lawyer - not to mention the owner paying her in the black, a low salary for only one of those jobs).
And gee, the owner of the restaurant is a lawyer. Imagine that.
The idea that a low-skilled, low-hour job deserves a higher salary than a job that took a person years to prepare for is ludicrous. To me, it shows that people who support such a thing think in terms of no hope for the future, showing, for example, that a person who starts out in a low-paying job really has no hope of ever advancing to anything better in their lives. No thought given to bettering oneself at all - the government will make everything alright, little boy or girl. Almost a caste system where "you're poor, ignorant, and with no hope of improving your lot in life, so at least we're going to make sure you get enough money to stay right where you are. If you are lucky and can get one of those protected jobs."
Somehow, the majority don't actually even get that help, though. What about the maids. The knife sharpeners. The construction workers. The verduleros (not the owners and managers, but the employees). The cooks, the food preparers, the dishwahsers. So on and so forth.
And why should it even be necessary to need continue to support low-paying, unskilled jobs over skilled jobs? What about the wonderful free education system here that should take anyone, poor or rich (todos incluidos, no?), and allow them to have a good enough education to advance beyond non-skilled labor? What? The system isn't working? Oh yeah, sorry, the government didn't do anything about the poor in relation to this until they saw that they were losing in the elections and made a last-minute play to pretend like they actually give a damn by doing another half-assed move such as lifting any entrance exams to public universities, as if they had finally found the magic bullet to give equality to all. If they were really so concerned about the poors' educational status, why wasn't this something done early in CFK's first term? Oh yeah, all that wonderful spending on education. And it took them 12 years total to realize that wasn't doing the job? Of course, all this will do is perpetuate the existing system of keeping the poor in their place while being used as support for populist policies.
Ah, populism and fascism hand-in-hand. The workers' paradise, the cheta person's coming hell and little room in between for anyone else.
Let's hope that if Macri wins that something does indeed change. Bajo, you and all the populists could be right, Macri may make a mess of things, given what he would be left with. But what you all don't understand is that people here seem to be willing to try anything other than the same ol' crap. The fear-mongering you all throw in everyone's face is nothing beside the reality they've been watching for at least the last 8 years and it's starting to have the same effect as shooting yourselves in the foot - repeatedly.
Sorry, I don't agree with populism and its ways of keeping the levels of uneducated people as high as possible.
