RE: Mentally retarded people worth $2 dollars per hour
January 31, 2014 at 1:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2014 at 2:18 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 31, 2014 at 1:14 pm)Chad32 Wrote:(January 31, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Chuck Wrote: Why would a business fund the minimum wage if the additional revenue rate generated by the minimum wage worker is less than the minimum wage itself? What possible justification could the business have for hiring such a worker? If the business will not hiring, who is going to fund this scheme other than the government?
The workers will need to work hard enough to make it, but an economy can't thrive if people aren't giving back to the government more than the government is putting in. If they can't live without government aid, even with a full time job, then they aren't giving back more than they put in.
So back to the mentally disabled, if they can't rely on either the government, because they are incapable of giving back more than what the government must put in just to keep them alive, and they have no family, we should let them die?
At a certain point, one must recognize there are intangible but real social value to basic assurance of survival for its citizens. These social values are conducive to a government carrying out its implied mission of engendering social stability and minimizing certain fundamental friction in the society, and therefore the government should be willing to pay for it, and people who live under the government should be willing to fund the government so the government can pay for it.
