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I think if they make enough money to longer need to be subsidized with Food Stamps, we`re all winners. Right now we`re all suckers worrying about those poor folks in their corporate jets.
Food stamps should be temporary until a person can figure out their life. I'm not sure what you mean by these poors in corporate jets, different skills and levels of responsibility pay accordingly.
I have no problem with companies voluntarily paying whatever wage they want. However, I do have a problem with government arbitrarily setting any wages, or prices. Let the market set those. When you introduce artificial wages, and prices bad things happen.
There is a difference.....between the Waltons, who have spent much of their life lobbying the State and Fed. Government for tax breaks for themselves personally (they made up the whole "death tax" thing because it mostly applied to billionaires).....
Good for Amazon. This is the positive side of Single Jewish Women (SJW)......basically enlightened, but not perfect, businesses from the Left Coast...
Another interesting factoid. Bezos makes breakfast (cooks) for his family. He doesn't take his first meeting until 10am and won't take any important decisions in the late afternoon. He says the best thinking is earlier in the day....
A American business that already employs 350,000 - many at high wages (skilled)...and has a "eco-system" of authors and other sellers numbering in the 100's of thousands. See....American is already great, but we need those SJWs to ask folks to do the right thing.
BTW, an auto plant these days generally employs 800-3,000.
Paid healthcare and retirement with a 401K is the next goal.
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Should? How is that anybody but the shareholders’ business is beyond me.
Some people always have the tendency to get into other people’s business and enslave them.
Don’t like the pay? Don’t work for them.
You mean like those who seek to control what happens in peoples' bedrooms and believe government should control what should be personal and private medical decisions?
He can pay them $50/hr for all I care, it is his company.
The issue I have is when the government tells someone to pay $15/hr.
In this case amazon is advocating for it. Cronyism at its best.
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"We will be working to gain Congressional support for an increase in the federal minimum wage. The current rate of $7.25 was set nearly a decade ago,” said Jay Carney, Senior Vice President of Amazon Global Corporate Affairs. “We intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country.
This is trickle down economics at it's best. Think of a community where 1000 people now make 4 dollars an hour more. In a community of 100,000 it's not enough to be inflationary, but it is a cash infusion to the area no matter what.
I've often said that trickle down needed to be legislated to be real. I'm glad that I'm wrong in this case.
I have no problem with companies voluntarily paying whatever wage they want. However, I do have a problem with government arbitrarily setting any wages, or prices. Let the market set those. When you introduce artificial wages, and prices bad things happen.
Amen. Both Amazon & Wal Mart offer a wide range of products at great prices. That is all I ask of them.
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