If you think 15% of people are unemployed, you're thinking that the glass is half empty. 85% of people are employed. With odds like that, you must be a real loser to not be on your way to living the American Dream. Hey! Listen to these guys in Silicon Valley -- I mean Economic Inequality is a terrible problem in the United States, and if unchecked it will lead to a glorious socialist revolution. Or at least the Neuvo Techies need a Rosa Parks moment:
"Software Startup employees need a worker’s bill of rights! Comrade Zaharias is shocked and saddened that good computer programmers, salt of the earth people every one, have gotten only modest or no stock options when the glorious day of the IPO hast come to their place of business. Greedy people, CEOs and Venture Capitalists who have contributed NOTHING AT ALL except for building the companies and coming up with all the money --- those leeches have sucked dry the stock price gains. Zaharias worked for a bunch of these companies, and not one of them has made him rich enough to bathe in caviar! They merely paid him as agreed in his contracts! Where, I ask you, is there justice to be found?"Okay, so I lied about the quote. Zaharias didn't say that exactly. But he humbly compares himself to Rosa Parks, and explains that simply to live in Palo Alto, a workingman needs about $1 million in liquid assets just to keep the rats from gnawing at his children’s bare and dirty feet.
What he might be about to realize is that maybe he's just become one of those rats. And he's demanding his own Bill of Rights to make sure that isn't the case!