Tube strike, London

Well done, Mark. Did you even read what I wrote before wading in? I didn't say my job is shit - I quite like my job, actually - and I work in a unionised workplace; I also said on the whole I support unions. My point about pay, which you would have got if you'd read my post propery, is that they already get pretty well renumerated for what they do. Personally I don't think driving a tube train is as hard as being, for example, a nurse on A&E and they get paid a damned sight better than them, so to be asking for - and then striking over - a 5% increase (and the rights of their workers, who were in the wrong) annoys me. Perhaps I was wrong to use myself and my girlfriend as examples but you get my point. I did also state that it's no doubt a shit job that I would not like to do.

Time for bed, Mark.

That's the main point, right there - arguing from an individual point of of view and comparing one job's conditions to another because you think they're better off, that's what I've been complaining about. Noone's yet explain all this indignation about pay despite multiple people asking, so I really do assume it's jealousy, or pissed-offness, whatever. Just someone please admit that finally though, please?

And all this stuff about which job's harder. Why does it matter? That's not how pay gets decided in the capitalist economy, is it? I've no idea how hard it is and I don't really understand why anyone should care if they're a capitalist.