RE: OUR unemployment rate
March 12, 2010 at 3:36 pm
(March 12, 2010 at 3:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: A business owner will pay his employees the minimum he can get away with, and he will take everything he can personally from the business without limit and consider this completely fair.
Yeah, because it is fair. It's his business...he sets the rules. As I said before, if enough of his employ think he's being stingy, they can leave or complain. Many people ask for a raise, some people get them. A business is largely controlled by the satisfaction of the employees as well as the satisfaction of the consumer. If a business owner doesn't keep both happy, he'll end up without a business.
Quote:Consumers want fairer trade and big companies will always want to appear as it's customers desire. Nestle have a fair trade label on kit kats now which is striking given their barbaric history. How did the American peanut industry prevail in the world nut market being such a weak contender? Severe political pressure to undermine it's competitors is how.
I've already said how I'm against government involvement in business. Free market capitalism rejects such notions.
Quote:I can't believe you live in the same world that I do if you don't think business controls everything. Part of the motivation to have money is to also have power. At a local level the wealthy force the local authority to do what they want... privately to benefit their immediate environment and commercially to benefit their business interests. I've been involved in it closely enough to observe all this happening. It's sickening and wrong, but it's the way of the world.
I do think business controls everything, and I think it's fine as long as business sticks to business and not to government. Business should control the market, government should keep the fuck away. Governments should protect liberties of citizens, not infringe the rights of them and businesses.
Quote:Government serves the interest of business. It can't directly contribute but it makes laws to promote business interest.
And it shouldn't. It should back off and let the market grow on its own.
