The CEO adds garbage, the janitor reduces it.

You don't pick up your own? Must be on the fast track to CEO, then...

There's a Douglas Adams subplot about a civilisation run by "executives" who determined janitors as useless. they got rid of them only to quickly die from diseases.

rule of thumb, if a job has to be done it is as dignified as every other job. it is BS propaganda that some jobs deserve to live in abject poverty without any respect.

Your job count!

(Thank you for making our places tidy)

My friend, you provide a valued and necessary service. Not only do you prevent pests (and therefore disease) from ever being a problem, but you maintain the morale of every person who uses the space you clean. You generate motivation but eliminating the negative debuff of a nasty environment. YOU make a difference

That guy just wants a little cabin on the edge of complete existential void where he can chill from time to time. And probably a sauna.

I can tell you are not a yesterday's grouse's son

Liberalism is the philosophy of capitalism. The people attacking liberals are either socialists who read literally any book in the last two centuries or confused conservatives.

The people who get angry about this are liberals who want to maintain the system of capitalism by buttressing it with welfare and technocratic tweaks as opposed to socialists who want to replace the system with one that serves the workers instead of capital.

To add onto the other comments, I'd like to point out that there are two distinct things that are called liberalism. If you're in the US, liberalism employed on its own usually refers to social liberalism, ie essentially progressivism. In that regard it is understood as the opposite of conservatism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism

In France (and elsewhere), when we say "liberalism" we mean economic (or "classic") liberalism, which essentially means : free to entreprise, free from the burden of social contribution (few taxes), free from regulations (small government), etc. which is closer to the economic policies that conservatives (and their equivalents over the world) typically defend.

The word iberal is built from the latin root "liber", meaning free. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liberal

So in practice, there's a mixup of these terms where for americans/britons liberalism=left, whereas for a lot of other people liberalism=right. Hence the confusion.

For the history side of things, I can't help... but reading the above article should help already.

Cheers,

I believe it tends to mean Neo-liberal, which is basically the modern corporate-friendly Democrat party, as opposed to the descriptor for 'not conservative'. So basically, there's liberals, and there's Liberals.

Liberalism is the ideology that says everyone should have equal rights, freedom of speech etc except "bad/troublesome actors".

In practice, bad/troublesome actors can include anyone. This ideology was created in early USA and in britain. And its proponents, on one hand said "equal rights for all" but also had slaves. In britain, liberals supported the subjugation of india because india was "a bunch of barbaric savages who needed to be civilized". Today immigrants or religious minorities are also excluded from these rights under the pretense of national security.

What we have today is neo-liberalism, that extends liberalism to include economic policies such as capitalism, and finance banking etc. (There's probably more to it, but i am a bit rusty in my knowledge about this topic).