(May 20, 2015 at 3:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No, actually it helps and, if you get them above the poverty line then you don't incur the costs of welfare that the city/state have to pay.
Right now, all we are doing is subsidizing these greedy corporate motherfuckers.
Yes. Right now, people who make minimum wage in some places are collecting food stamps because they are too poor to make it on their own. When we allow companies to pay starvation wages, everyone who pays taxes is being suckered into supporting the practice.
As for the idiotic claim that jobs will be lost, a job that pays starvation wages isn't worth having. The main point of working is to be able to support yourself, and if working does not do that, what the hell is the point of it?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
