Why is it the employer's responsibility to provide a living wage?

[Ben Davis]

So what are the compelling reasons an employer should be obligated to provide all the means of living(the cash equivalent of such in our society) for an employee?

In principle, the main one is because employees are surrendering the time in which they would otherwise be able to 'gather their nuts' in order to benefit an employer. This requires the employer to remunerate accordingly in order to create an equitable contract.

In practice, we see that current models of free-market capitalism and the employment dynamics of scarcity corrupt this model and place advantage with the employer thus reducing the employees' contract leverage. This is why mass representation of employees and employment legislation are so important: to maintain contract equitability.

Does that make sense?