The morality of the minimum wage or lack of. (drug, program, claim)
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How would you like to define it when you put a gun on our head and force us to do what you wish?
Rape or armed robbery?
oh please, that is not even in the same category here.
these days if i have a job opening in a business, and you send your resume to me, and you have the skill set, education, and experience i am looking for, then i offer you the job. at that point you have three options;
1: accept the job and take the pay rate i am offering
2: turn down the job and look elsewhere
3: make a counter offer on pay and benefits
this is not modern day slavery, this is not me coercing you to take the job or pay i offer, this is completely voluntary. you dont have those options if you are a slave.
as for your question, you are talking about a criminal act, so depending on what is being forced upon you, depends on what you call it. but your question tells me that you have absolutely no clue about which you speak, and thus you need an education before making comments.
oh please, that is not even in the same category here.
these days if i have a job opening in a business, and you send your resume to me, and you have the skill set, education, and experience i am looking for, then i offer you the job. at that point you have three options;
1: accept the job and take the pay rate i am offering
2: turn down the job and look elsewhere
3: make a counter offer on pay and benefits
this is not modern day slavery, this is not me coercing you to take the job or pay i offer, this is completely voluntary. you dont have those options if you are a slave.
as for your question, you are talking about a criminal act, so depending on what is being forced upon you, depends on what you call it. but your question tells me that you have absolutely no clue about which you speak, and thus you need an education before making comments.
Try to offer or accept a wage lower then the minimum wage and see what happens.
Minimum wage is one of those things where I find the Republicans to be particularly stupid. There is all sorts of denial and obfuscation and nonsense about the federal minimum wage. In reality, minimum wage was implemented in the age of the Robber Barons to prevent greedy businesses from paying anyone less than a reasonably comfortable living wage. Well $7.50 sure ain't a wage you can survive on for the vast majority of the country. Completely eliminating the minimum wage would make matters even worse.
The Democrats are stupid on the matter for other reasons. They currently want to raise it too fast, which will drive runaway inflation. They support illegal immigration, which leads to illegal aliens getting paid less than minimum under the table and hurting the legal residents and citizens that would have made minimum for that same job. And the stupidest thing that the Democrats do -- IMHO completely on purpose: They never tie minimum wage to inflation. Imagine if we raised minimum wage to $10 per hour and then tied it to inflation right now. We could completely forget about it from now on. But the Dems apparently like to keep at a set rate in order to grandstand for votes instead of doing the right thing once and for all. Putting the minimum wage problem to bed forever would have been one helluva lot more useful an endeavor for Obama than the Obamacare mess or anything else he got done.
I did an essay on this for a class exploring if higher minimums actually increased real earnings, purchasing power, adjusted for inflation and I found a negative correlation ie. Higher minimums DECREASED real earnings. The states with highest real earnings; North Dakota, New Hampshire, Utah, Iowa broadly had minimums on the lower end and the states with the lowest real wages generally had higher minimums; New York, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii. The states with higher minimums fairly broadly had less productivity(hours worked), had much higher cost of living, slower growth and % of business ownership was lower. There were some outliers like Vermont, Colorado and Arizona who had higher minimums and above average real earnings but generally speaking it was a negative correlation.
Try to offer or accept a wage lower then the minimum wage and see what happens.
no one i know is that stupid, but if you want to work for less than minimum wage, you can sign a waiver that will allow you to work for less than minimum if you choose, and the company is held harmless in the eyes of the state as long as they keep the waiver on file.
I did an essay on this for a class exploring if higher minimums actually increased real earnings, purchasing power, adjusted for inflation and I found a negative correlation ie. Higher minimums DECREASED real earnings. The states with highest real earnings; North Dakota, New Hampshire, Utah, Iowa broadly had minimums on the lower end and the states with the lowest real wages generally had higher minimums; New York, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii. The states with higher minimums fairly broadly had less productivity(hours worked), had much higher cost of living, slower growth and % of business ownership was lower. There were some outliers like Vermont, Colorado and Arizona who had higher minimums and above average real earnings but generally speaking it was a negative correlation.
So to improve productivity and stimulate the economy, the minimum wage should be reduced to say, $5 an hour? Wouldn't it mean incredible new job creation?
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