Question: What do you all want for future generations employment-wise? (unemployment rate, minimum wage)
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This question is mostly geared toward anti-union, anti-minimum wage, and anti-child labor law supporters. These positions worry me because I feel future generations of Americans will be terribly exploited if some politicians get their way.
Personally, I'd rather not see my grandchildren working for 75 cents an hour with no benefits like workers in China do right now. I also do not want to see 10 year olds doing dangerous labor jobs such as coal mining like they did in the year 1900.
Is it just me, or do some just not care about future generations just as long as they "got theirs?"
I see widening wealth gaps. A heightening unemployment rate. A small subset of highly paid skilled labor versus a wide base of poorly paid skilled labor, and then there is a large working underclass.
It is hard to imagine the next generation's median living standards to be superior to the present.
I see widening wealth gaps. A heightening unemployment rate. A small subset of highly paid skilled labor versus a wide base of poorly paid skilled labor, and then there is a large working underclass.
It is hard to imagine the next generation's median living standards to be superior to the present.
That's what I forsee too, and those conditions are very similar to what you see in 3rd world countries.
The problem is you are looking back wards. In the future most of our daily household work and most jobs will be automated or robotic. We have been heading in this direction for 100 years. Now most people are very scared of this trend, the problem is you need to embrace it and not fear it.
Sure, there will be many issues and problems as we transition but the future will be very different once complete.
If most menial tasks are automated it will free up a lot of time for people, this will allow people to focus on the experience economy. This will he a hybrid of entertainment and service it will allow many more people to pursue creative exploits. We will also see a craftsman class develop os people take time to create highly custom intricate products.
I look forward to the amazing world my kids will inherit.
I also do not want to see 10 year olds doing dangerous labor jobs such as coal mining like they did in the year 1900.
Sales (e.g. store clerk) is more dangerous job than coal mining as are many other common jobs like driving truck or sanitation workers. You can find these statistics here: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
In any event no 10 year old belongs in mine unless they are there on educational tour, matter of fact I'm not so sure a ten year old belongs at any job because most are not going to be mature enough. The only legislation I've read that was proposed from one state simply allows a parent to make their own decision if a child is going to work. Dangerous jobs like coal mining were still forbidden as were many others they listed.
Jobs they might get would be menial ones lke sweeping the floor. There used to be a tomato farm near where I lived. When the season hit you could go there and work as little or as long as you wanted picking tomatoes .Lot of bikes purchased with that money from that farm and more importantly it instilled a work ethic.
The reason why children don't have to work anymore is not because of some retards in D.C., but because our wealth is so great that one man can support a whole family. Before the 19th century the economic reality had always been work or starve for children. The laws just prevent children who actually do want to work from working. Laws always have unintended consequences and if they were all repealed I would see a prosperous future opposite to the depressed future I see now were politicians and bureaucrats have to approve of every step you take.
I want the future to hold the freedom of opportunity for someone to advance according to their merit and get paid what the market will bear. I do not want a future where employment, wages, and benefits are union controlled. That is not freedom, and it certainly does not permit the pursuit of happiness. Every state must be a Right-To-Work state. Until that happens we will never be free.
This question is mostly geared toward anti-union, anti-minimum wage, and anti-child labor law supporters. These positions worry me because I feel future generations of Americans will be terribly exploited if some politicians get their way.
Personally, I'd rather not see my grandchildren working for 75 cents an hour with no benefits like workers in China do right now. I also do not want to see 10 year olds doing dangerous labor jobs such as coal mining like they did in the year 1900.
Is it just me, or do some just not care about future generations just as long as they "got theirs?"
I'd just like to see them working and paying taxes so they don't vote like a bunch of idealists.
The reason why children don't have to work anymore is not because of some retards in D.C., but because our wealth is so great that one man can support a whole family. Before the 19th century the economic reality had always been work or starve for children. The laws just prevent children who actually do want to work from working. Laws always have unintended consequences and if they were all repealed I would see a prosperous future opposite to the depressed future I see now were politicians and bureaucrats have to approve of every step you take.
And anyone can look at Census Bureau data from the late 1800s to see what you say is exactly correct. The number of kids working was dropping rapidly starting in 1880. By 1920 is was non-existent, except for farm kids. The feds didn't get around to outlawing it until 1937.
In 1880, when the child labor problem was being fixed by capitalists, unions made up less than 3% of the working population. But they take credit for fixing it? LOLs. Wages were also rising at a faster rate (57%) at this time without unions and min. wage laws.
Unions are a bunch of money-grubbing, worthless liars. We'd all be better off without 'em.
This question is mostly geared toward anti-union, anti-minimum wage, and anti-child labor law supporters. These positions worry me because I feel future generations of Americans will be terribly exploited if some politicians get their way.
Personally, I'd rather not see my grandchildren working for 75 cents an hour with no benefits like workers in China do right now. I also do not want to see 10 year olds doing dangerous labor jobs such as coal mining like they did in the year 1900.
Is it just me, or do some just not care about future generations just as long as they "got theirs?"
Thuis is what I keep asking myself when I see these union protestors on the television. Simple math shows the State of Ohio will go broke if they do not do something about the budget. But the union seems to be saying "**** you, I want mine".
Plus, they act like they are he only group that is going to have to be cut back some. They are only the first.
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