Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[bennyboy]

Not for nothing..there's plenty to dislike the pc sjws for.  Like minimum wage increases.  

Maybe you got the wrong example but you don't have to get the right example to dislike the idea of minimum wage increases.  

Though, I have to ask...do you see minimum wage increases as incentive or entitlement?

I define "entitlement" as benefits which are offered without merit or contract.

By "without merit," I mean it's offered unconditionally-- for example, I believe all citizens (and maybe all residents tbh) should be accorded with free quality health care.

By "without contract," I mean that the person doesn't need to accept any personal responsibility in order to receive the benefit--no payments to keep up on, for example.  I would release a lot of people from jail, especially if they are there for crimes that are no longer crimes, or which might receive more moderate sentences if they were charged today.  But I'd offer them financial incentives, and very strong and meaningful ones, which scale with success-- working full time, doing community service of value, involvement in study or work programs, and so on. They'd also have to sign a contract-- something similar to probation but framed more as an employment agreement with the state.

Health care in Canada is an entitlement, or it was when I was still there.  EVEN IF I didn't keep up with my responsibilities to pay, I'd still be covered, and still get treatment.  They would later advise me I have to catch up on payments, or give me some vehicle by which I could apply for payment relief.  I'm not sure that's true today.


I'm not sure how I'd categorize minimum wage increases.  Pragmatically, they are both: they are given by a new policy, with nothing required on the side of the worker, but they certainly aren't handouts.  I'm not sure that governments offer them as an incentive either-- it's more about making sure people who DO work are at least better off than those on welfare or those who depend on criminal activity (at least I'd hope so).  But you'd think better money would inspire more people to get out and contribute to the society.

When I was a young kid (like still a minor but kind of emancipated), I was on welfare, and at that time there was a kind of jobs program in which the government contributed some of the pay, and the salary was enough that I could afford to save up a little and eventually get off of welfare. Since I was putting in a fair day's work, I felt some pride in it that I wouldn't have had if the same money was just handed to me in a cheque.
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For me, I'd like to see a kind of fusion effort, especially with regard to welfare.  I'd like welfare to be better-- much more money; and for it to be a right of citizenship much like unemployment insurance.  By being a citizen, you don't even need to have a REASON if you need support for a month here or there.  But you also have a responsibility-- if you are on welfare too long, you will be given community service (at minimum wage) to pay for every penny of it, required to join professional training programs, and so on.

Now, two problems are immediately obvious-- dealing with handicaps, especially claims of social disorders making it impossible for people to do anything but play X-Box games (like almost all my cousins, which is BS in my opinion).

The other problem is that in America, the powers that be may make it extra hard for black people to even GET jobs, and then make the community service punitively uncomfortable, and then send them to jail when they fail to show up. I recognize that this is a reality there.