RE: Why is it the employer's responsibility to provide a living wage?
May 10, 2014 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2014 at 8:44 am by Cato.)
(May 10, 2014 at 1:23 am)Heywood Wrote: Employees do not work for free. Employers will have to pay them to attract them.
This only applies for positions requiring a certain level of experience and specialization. Employers can pay next to nothing for low skill or generally available higher skill positions. No effort or cost is necessary beyond posting the open position to a job board. It isn't hard to find stories of hundreds or even thousands of people applying for a single position.
Employers get away with paying shit wages because they aren't competing with other employers; they are competing with destitution.
(May 10, 2014 at 1:55 am)Heywood Wrote: In hunting gathering times, you either made your nut or you died. The state was invented to help individuals make their nut, not legislate someone else help individuals make their nut.
You are either woefully ignorant of the history of civilization or you intentionally squished civilization's timeline so that 5000 BCE and the late nineteenth century are adjacent.
Quote:Isn't this another way of saying your too cheap to help your fellow man so you want to mandate that employers pay a wage high enough so you don't have too?
People have moral/social obligations to other people. You want to shift that obligation away from people and onto corporations.
Are you oblivious to the fact that those with the means to help are the same people that offer low wages?
