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There are tons of liberals who say "Businesses who won't pay a living wage shouldn't be in business". I suggest them to run a business and pay a living wage. Their mouths shut really quick.
It's always annoying when people say how things "should" be simply based on their feelings. They may have no idea how the financial side of the business operates, or business in general, but they'll still throw out platitudes like "no one should work for less than a living wage". It's just an appeal to people's sentimentality and emotion...like saying "no kid should ever be unhappy on Christmas Day". Okay, well that's a nice thought, but it's meaningless.
Until Reagan, and the beginning of the theft of America's wealth by the corporate sector, followed by the offshoring of American jobs, American business had no problem paying a living wage; that, in fact, is how the American middle class was built.
Well I sort of agree they shouldn't in a way. If you depend on illegals, foreign workers, mass immigration and outsourcing instead of facing domestic market forces for labor supply and demand, then the business is kind of a blood sucker and it's just as well they go out of business.
Well I sort of agree they shouldn't in a way. If you depend on illegals, foreign workers, mass immigration and outsourcing instead of facing domestic market forces for labor supply and demand, then the business is kind of a blood sucker and it's just as well they go out of business.
As long as they try to save money first by laying you off.?
There are tons of liberals who say "Businesses who won't pay a living wage shouldn't be in business". I suggest them to run a business and pay a living wage. Their mouths shut really quick.
Then they would have more business experience than you do. How is your unemployment going BTW?
Companies in places like Germany do a better job on the whole at paying their workers a 'living wage'. I read an interesting article about it recently. In Germany, companies are less likely to be publicly traded than in the U.S and therefore they aren't beholden to shareholders. Additionally, the CEO's and 'people at the top' don't take as much of a cut/salary as they do over here, thereby increasing how much they are able to pay their 'people at the bottom'.
Obviously, this theory would not necessarily work in a Mom & Pop business scenario, but it does make sense for the large, profitable national companies.
Until Reagan, and the beginning of the theft of America's wealth by the corporate sector, followed by the offshoring of American jobs, American business had no problem paying a living wage; that, in fact, is how the American middle class was built.
Exactly.
Lots of people made a living wage working at the drug store, cashiering at the local grocery store, ...
Reagan with his amnesty for illegal immigrants and union-busting started the ball rolling to undercut American workers.
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