(February 17, 2016 at 6:21 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: I don't think anyone is saying businesses should pay higher wages regardless of their bottom line. The argument is against large companies who employ a number of people and instead of reinvesting that money back into it's workers, profits go to top executives and shareholders. If corporate America invested in it's workers, it would create an economic boost for small businesses who in turn would be able to pay better.
BINGO!
Let me add, I've had bosses I love, even ones who wanted to pay me better but couldn't and those guys were in the trenches with me. But if you are going to be one of those bosses who sits in an office and simply spends 12 hours a day dreaming up ways to franchise your name, and please shareholders, but do nothing but blame the poor, then no, fuck you.
This is what it amounts to right here. Big business has made it hard on everyone including small businesses. Our society would be better off if more families could survive off of one income, two at best, without both parents having to work two jobs just to pay bills. What corporate America has been doing is blackmail, if they can hide their taxes, if they cant cut labor first, if they cant make everything part time to save money on labor, they threaten to leave the state and or the country all together.
I've seen what caring bosses do, and what selfish asshole bosses do. I've worked under both. But right now the big guys are more concerned with the competition between the top, not whom they hurt in the middle, not even small businesses, much less the poor.
