If it's good for business, it's good for me ....

OK, I keep hearing this ....

So please inform me:

1. How is this supposed to work?

2. As one of your representatives told me on LinkedIn last week that you can neither guarantee me a job nor create jobs out of thin air (or using your imagination or planning for the future - same thing as he was concerned), how is this in my interest?

3. You can fire me at a moment's notice, not because I am not productive or competent, but because you arbitrarily think that I am "too old" or "too expensive" (that incidentally in the UK can equal making 15,000 pounds a year, in Germany the figure is somewhat higher and in a more trustworthy currency). Again, can you please tell me how this is in my interest?

4. You help the economy grow. Fine, but if over 90% of economic growth goes into the pockets, bank accounts, investments etc of 7-8% of the population, how does this benefit me?

And while we are here can you tell me how you keep unemployment low, how you stop underemployment, how you help fight poverty, how you create the possibilities where people like me who do not want to be dependent on government handouts need not be, and how those, like me, who believe in work ethic (and are not born salesmen and/or gamblers) can live satisfactorily as a result of their work ethic, and those like me who want to live without being in debt can do so?

I am not a polemicist, I am a pragmatist. I want results not theories. And I do not want to hear excuses or owt concerning "luck" or "winners and losers".