(May 12, 2014 at 9:08 pm)Heywood Wrote: This is not an argument. This is you dictating that it is the employers responsibility. Why is it the employers responsibility? You claim the social contract.....which is really just an edict and not an argument on why it should be the employers responsibility. Calling your edict part of the social contract doesn't make for a persuasive argument.
If I grant you that some nebulous social contract exists, can you provide an argument that contained within that "contract" is a clause the employers must pay a living wage?
It is society's responsibility and the state seems to be the only means with which to enact meaningful change. Employers could and should fix the problem, but are obviously not interested. Employers are partly responsible since they are the means of disbursement and therefore the primary mechanism we have chosen to allocate and share resources. They have proven to be disinterested in that they have continued to suppress wages to the point where people toil full time without being able to afford the bare necessities of life.
