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Sounds good IF you let the free market take its own course in HOUSING. Deal?
It sounds like you're suggesting something. Maybe not have an artificial supported economy for the past 8 years based on low interest rates? Or something else?
LOL. Game changer is automation. That phone number you call to pay a bill was once a live CSR. Book a hotel or plane = live travel agent. Get $50 at a bank-teller, not ATM. My last 5 cashiers this week were ME, at a self checkout.
We figured out how to automate rote tasks.
To stay employed, one best be doing higher level work which would require advanced ai to replicate.
Automation has taken place for 250 years...Thats why you dont work as a simple peasant.
Employers always look for the best deal in real estate, machinery and supplies, just like any household.
But the citizenry (real people) deserve to be protected ...
from unsafe products in the market,
from unscrupulous vendors, false advertising, false weights and measures and swindlers in general,
from companies and individuals polluting our public waterways and the atmosphere,
from stock market manipulations,
from exploitation in the workplace.
We are discussing the well-being of real humans here. These are our people.
You're not looking at it from a market's perspective. How do you think the market feels about all that regulation keeping our computers from burning our houses down, and phones from blowing up in our faces? This is just hurting the poor who can't afford to purchase safe products.
I just hung up on a friend who said the minimum wage should be $0/hr, same if working or not. So, he seems to think he should be forced to become homeless, and dig rotten food out of neighbors dumpsters, even if a law prevents that. He seems to feel sorry for the people who have only $10 billion.
Is Trump promoting these feelings, or where are they coming from?
Yes, it should be zero. Government has no right to tell employers what to pay employees.
Yes, it should be $0/hr. It will actually benefit the most unskilled workers more than anyone. Fun fact: Minimum wage laws were originally advocated by people who wanted to keep blacks and women from entering the work force.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established the minimum wage at $.25 per hour. There was some southern Democratic opposition to the New Deal only because it sought to end racial discrimination associated with New Deal benefits.
The Fair Labor Standards Act and other programs associated with the New Deal were widely opposed by big business. There is no evidence that the FLSA was designed to keep blacks and women out of the work force.
It should be noted that the well to do in the United States never favored giving a break to working people. We were nothing more than disposable equipment during the Gilded Age, The twenties, during the depression, or now for that matter.
We also fight and die in their wars. It was my experience that those who went to Vietnam as wise guys came back just fine. The decent guys came back all messed up.
You can't have a zero dollar minimum wage but you can do away with having a minimum wage.
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