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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I didn't read the reply to Tvo's post cause, well, ya know <g>

However, there is a fallacy here.  Most newspapers don't hire kids to throw
papers anymore.  They hire adults who make upwards to $1200 a month for
working 2 hours a day.  That works out to $20/hr.  Not bad money!

Kids working at Micky Ds don't generally have to pay rent, etc.   Making
$6.75/hr (at least in CA), isn't bad for kids who aren't qualified to hold a
job that pays more.  In fact, seems to me, most of them aren't really
qualified to hold the job at Micky Ds, so they really are getting charity to
some degree!

Also, self-employeed folks aren't a business as used by FDR.

Lynda
If ignorance is bliss why aren't more people happy?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>

> >tvoivozhd wrote:
> >
> >>No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages
> >>to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
> >>- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
> >
> >So newspapers shouldn't be allowed to hire paperboys, or McDonalds hire
> >the teenagers, or a self employed person shouldn't operate if their
profit
> >per hour happened to drop below some arbitrary point?
>
> I think the key phrase in the quote was "depends for existence".
>
> I never really thought about it, but I'd have to wonder about a company
> that would go under if they paid their workers enough to live on.
> <Shrug>, it's a different world.
>
> Rob
> becidawa AT hctc.com
> western Washington, USA