(December 17, 2020 at 4:04 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(December 17, 2020 at 3:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Um, you do realise the discussion is more about providing a baseline level of wages that workers can live on and not paying EVERYONE the exact same amount, right?
Not every job CAN provide enough to live on.
A paperweight should be paid as such
Sure that sucks if you are a paperweight.
It sucks even worse when you are a skilled worker - and now the paperweight is being paid the same as you.
You can’t have it both ways. You implied earlier that shitty wages produce shitty workers and that people need incentives. I don’t disagree, but it seems the best way to change that is to pay people a living wage to start, then increase it as they become more skilled and productive.
When employers can get away with poverty-level pay, they will do so and do it for as long as possible. If a worker is paid $8/hour and understands that they will ALWAYS be paid $8/hour, where’s the incentive?
Boru
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