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?
tvoivozhd----newspaper boys here get a living wage, as they do elsewhere---doesn't matter if the newspaper doesn't make a profit on delivery, the newspaper digs into their advertsing profit to pay delivery costs or the newspaper doesn't get delivered, putting the newspaper out of business. You've got a problem with that?
McDonalds for the past forty or more years, like every other business, is by law, forbidden from paying less than minimum wage---hasn't harmed them in any way whatsoever---as a matter of fact you would have to hunt pretty hard to find a McDonalds that paid minimum wage today, they would have to close the doors. Not that it matters, you could use the same specious argument against ANY increase in business costs, whether it be an increase in rent (happens all the time), increase in insurance premiums (happens all the time), increase in utility bills (happens all the time), increase in taxes or increase in fuel bills (happening right now),
Why do you want to discriminate against companys that hire teenagers, or people who want a job as much for social reasons as for pay?
It is attitudes like that and the laws that those attitudes have spawned that has caused the great job outsourcing to other countries and the illegal immigrant problem here to happen.
Didn't Roosevelt admire and want to emulate "Uncle Joe" Stalin's economic ideas?
What ever happened to a truly free market, and not the fascist corporate run government that we have now?
Besides - what is this crap about *business* having rights? Only *people* have rights. And when someone tells me that they won't allow me to sell my labor or the products of it for a certain price - even when I have a willing buyer - it is *my* rights that are getting infringed.
Tvo, I have admired your advice and wisdom about business. It seems to me that the only way to ensure that one has a *living wage* is to start one's own business.
And government regulation is the number one stumbling block for people wanting to do that.
I don't understand this coming from you or on a "homestead" list. It seems that most of us would rather live frugally, and work for what others would see as much lower than a "living wage" in order to enjoy our life style. You are threatening this?
-Steve
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