RE: The O'Crappy Factor.
November 27, 2014 at 11:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2014 at 11:14 pm by Heywood.)
(November 27, 2014 at 12:05 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Any business that reports a profit, yet has employees on the public dole, is a business stealing from its workers, as well as the taxpaying public.
A living wage gives more people more disposable income. They don't have to spend every penny on necessities, so you have a lot more people spending a lot more money on stuff that stimulates the economy. Demand naturally rises businesses strive to meet greater demand. Prices fall and employment increases. Oh yeah, and we spend less on hated entitlements.
The idea that the health of our economy relies on employers keeping the majority of what workers produce is bunk, and our insistence upon preserving this system is only making things worse for everybody.
Why is it the businesses responsibility to pay a living wage? Just because you declare it so? Well I declare that it is the chicken's responsibility to have enough meat on its bones to feed my family. If for some reason it doesn't and my family's nutritional needs have to be met by the government....well then that chicken is stealing from me and the tax payers.
Look, it is a cold hard fact of nature that an animal(which humans are) have to work until their nut is made. That might take 4 hours a week, or 40 hours a week, or 80 hours a week. I'm sure Walmart isn't working its minimum wage workers 80 hours a week. Why should Walmart be required to pay more just to subsidize a shorter work week for its employees?
With the amount of productivity we have today and our compassionate nature to our fellow man....I agree nobody should have to work 120 hours a week to support themselves or their family.....but it isn't Walmart's responsibility to see that happen. It is the responsibility of our society at large because it is a goal of our society. It certainly isn't Walmart's goal. We shouldn't try to pawn the responsibility of achieving societal goals on employers like Walmart because when we do so...we price the least productive out of the labor market.
No minimum wage and universal basic income for the win. Nobody is priced out of the labor market, and the necessities of life are re-distributed so nobody has to work a 120 hour work week just to earn their nut.
