(March 26, 2019 at 4:00 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(March 26, 2019 at 3:55 pm)Drich Wrote: Minimum wage does not mean a living wage. minimum wage was the rock bottom show up with a pulse and hold this broom, and try and not hurt yourself wage given to weak minded people as a token that slavery was a thing of the past. However if you wished to work for less a job in agriculture would always suspend any and all workers rights. however if you want to make more you had to earnit. here's an idea get off your lazy asses and learn a trade, most trade job double collage jobs now. time to wake up and go to work rather than taking 10 years off working a crap job and demanding to sustain yourself till you finally decide to clock in to a career.
Nobody is looking for a handout. I am sick of that bullshit. Nobody is claiming you should pay a dishwasher the same as a neurosurgeon.
If you'd do some research on our allies who are far more stable, you'd know the pay gap is nowhere near as bad as it is here.
You cannot simply keep exploding the gap between the top and the bottom. It is no different than trying to stretch a rubber band beyond it's capacity.
The pay gap is right where it should be because stoner jobs or stupid people who flood the market with one skill or degree, should not make as much as someone who puts in the time to learn a trade or job no one wants up front. Dream chasers should not be paid to follow their dreams. life should be hard and unforgiving if for no other reason than to wake people up and put themselves to work or force them to better themselves.
The problem with the work force is everyone wants top dollar no one wants to work no one wants to put in extra study no one wants to spend a weekend going to a supplement course even if it means increasing their over salary. Those who get it excell and tend to break off on their own work their asses off and sometimes make it big, when they do they should be rewarded with whatever they can earn.
other wise what would be the point? why did steve Jobs put so much time in apple? why did he push and develop All that he did? Why does elon musk devlop an electric car and have his own space program? You take their money all the forward thinking slows to a crawl, as those billion fund not only what is going on today but any future ideas of projects. take that money and give it to some a-hole who's only reason for being at work is because his mom demands he does something else besides smoke pot and play video games all day!
The same is true with smaller companies like us. take an extra 20 or 30% from us and that's the whole profit margin! Meaning everything we worked for for the last 30 years now puts us in a spot if we are lucky to break even and if there is a slow year we have no savings let alone capital for any new hires or future projects!
That pay gap allows us to employ people to buy equipment (I bought 75 commercial trucks and vans last year, most where new.) those vans gave 12 to at one point 15 people jobs, and gave raises to everyone. We could do this because I had way way more money at my disposal as an owner than any one of my employees. Granted tis is not take home pay but it is net worth which is what fake news/rigged pole count as pay gap. We were only able to do all of this because trump gave back 20% of our taxes. which increases our profit margin from 10 to 15% under obama to putting money back in our pockets at a 30 to 25% rate, so we can do what we do best and that is work our markets and make money, which again means we spend money buying other people offerings and contribute our own creating a strong economy and even a stronger job market.
Under obama at my peek I had maybe 10 people working for us, and was lucky to kick out two units a month=24 commercial truck and vans.
