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It's not corprate welfare, it's individual welfare. The people are being subsidized. Corporate welfare is when a corporation enjoys unjustified preferential treatment from government as a result of their political connections.
People make choices that determine what their needs will be, and those choices do not impose any obligation upon their employers - nor should they.
As far as cost of living is concerned, there are many ways that government can lessen the burden upon people (and thus, upon the welfare system and ultimately, upon us as taxpayers). The notion that businesses should pay more in labor cost excuses the fact that COL is inflated by government and unfairly shifts the buren for such onto businesses.
Nice package deal. But wrong and illogical and irrational, but with the usual hackneyed agenda: Collectivism.
Wages are paid by employers in trade for time and talent to people of their choosing. Freedom and trade. No compulsion and no implied threat of violence. Freedom. Trade. Moral. Good.
Public assistance and food stamps has NOTHING to do with that. It's a separate and unrelated phenomena. And is based on compulsion and violence and the other decrepit principles of redistributionism.
Trading time and talent for money is moral. Stealing money from those who have it to give to those who need it is immoral and despicable.
So unwrap your little package deal and donate it to the garbage dump.
In 1926 Henry Ford implemented the 8 hour workday. By cutting the working day and doubling
pay, Ford upped productivity and doubled profit margins within 2 years.
In 1926 Henry Ford implemented the 8 hour workday. By cutting the working day and doubling pay, Ford upped productivity and doubled profit margins within 2 years.
Are you sure you're ready to eliminate all of the regulations, taxes, tariffs, and relevant case law that has come about since 1926?
Your opinion is based upon the socialist notion that employers, not individuals, should ultimately bear the financial burden for the life choices made by said individuals.
Your opinion is based upon the socialist notion that employers, not individuals, should ultimately bear the financial burden for the life choices made by said individuals.
When those choices are to either take the jobs that pay less than a living wage or have no income at all, then the employers are largely responsible for the choices the individual makes. They certainly can't "better themselves" (the tired old pro-business mantra that pretends anyone can get ahead if they really want to) with no money and even if they could there aren't enough jobs for everyone to be above base level. If the individual chooses not to work you call them lazy and if they take the job you say they made their own choice and it isn't the employer's problem.
When those choices are to either take the jobs that pay less than a living wage or have no income at all, then the employers are largely responsible for the choices the individual makes. They certainly can't "better themselves" (the tired old pro-business mantra that pretends anyone can get ahead if they really want to) with no money and even if they could there aren't enough jobs for everyone to be above base level. If the individual chooses not to work you call them lazy and if they take the job you say they made their own choice and it isn't the employer's problem.
The employers are responsible for NOTHING. Employment is a simple and free trade of time for money, nothing more.
And yes, we live in a just world. A very, very, just world. Where effort and excellence equal advancement and happiness.
Good people who work hard and do well overcome adversity and make a happy life. If you are not happy and doing well, the FAULT is ALL YOURS.
Oh!!! but the cancer, the blindness, the discrimination, the bad luck! This is the equivalent of the "ethics of emergencies" where you construct an impossible scenario in a futile attempt to advance a bad argument. The fact is, for 95% of the population who are not facing a health cataclysm or a mental illness, effort plus excellence equals decent wealth plus happiness.
So almost all of us face a wonderful and just world where we are responsible for our own fate.
"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves" - Terminator 2, Judgement Day
The employers are responsible for NOTHING. Employment is a simple and free trade of time for money, nothing more.
And yes, we live in a just world. A very, very, just world. Where effort and excellence equal advancement and happiness.
Good people who work hard and do well overcome adversity and make a happy life. If you are not happy and doing well, the FAULT is ALL YOURS.
Oh!!! but the cancer, the blindness, the discrimination, the bad luck! This is the equivalent of the "ethics of emergencies" where you construct an impossible scenario in a futile attempt to advance a bad argument. The fact is, for 95% of the population who are not facing a health cataclysm or a mental illness, effort plus excellence equals decent wealth plus happiness.
So almost all of us face a wonderful and just world where we are responsible for our own fate.
"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves" - Terminator 2, Judgement Day
That is not true in any sense. We have laws that employers have to follow. Yeah we live in a just world where we have wars,poverty,homelessness,rape. Keep on living in your delusional world.
That is not true in any sense. We have laws that employers have to follow. Yeah we live in a just world where we have wars,poverty,homelessness,rape. Keep on living in your delusional world.
"We have laws" can be changed. And we need to abolish all laws, including the minimum wage, that support theft and mediocrity.
When those choices are to either take the jobs that pay less than a living wage or have no income at all, then the employers are largely responsible for the choices the individual makes. They certainly can't "better themselves" (the tired old pro-business mantra that pretends anyone can get ahead if they really want to) with no money and even if they could there aren't enough jobs for everyone to be above base level. If the individual chooses not to work you call them lazy and if they take the job you say they made their own choice and it isn't the employer's problem.
And there is no living wage. It's a figment of your imagination. If you want a wage you can live on, survey the economy in your area, then survey your own talents. Once you discover the wage you want, you stack that up with what you have to offer in terms of talent, expertise, focus, and drive. Then, you make yourself into a person that offers the correct goodness to achieve the wage you want. If you are not good enough, and can't get good enough, or more accurately won't get good enough, you need to set your sights lower.
And THAT is what weak people hate and are rebelling against. The requirement of effort, to enable survival. They just want it to BE THERE. And if they can't do it, then by God, they are going to take it. "So, since we live in an unjust world, I'm in favor of passing a law that will put others in prison if they do not pay me what I think I need to live comfortably."
That is what the minimum wage is all about. Mediocrity hating itself and seeking a violent solution to fix it, rather than a virtuous solution of self-improvement, self-awareness, and self-sufficiency.
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