RE: Living wage
June 25, 2015 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-adding to the above, in case anyone ever wondered. The current models of production aren't necessarrily the best models with regards -to- production..but, rather, the best models with regards to distribution, which is a separate endeavor engaged in by distinctly different organizations almost entirely devoted to profit with no other metrics upon which to judge it.
Increasing the wage that producers are required to pay would would not reduce or remove any portion of their profits (they'd buy labor instead of combines at commensurate costs) but would cut out the distributive arm of the process which could no longer rely on the volume-in-time of product that a combine is capable of producing that human laborers simply are -not- no matter how many you clump together. Even here their profits would only be diminished from the many billions into the great many millions.
The current status of wage laws in this country is an issue of greed, no matter how you cut it. If you find that the margins of your business are so tight that you can't afford to pay a wage greater than the minimum than I have to tell you, unequivocally and demonstrably, that you're bad at what you do....and should find a better way to leverage your assets. Mcdonalds isn;'t toiling under the same problem that you are, they turn considerably more profit from an hour of labor than they pay out for that ;labor (plus all costs pursuant to their operation - and you can check this for yourself...just tell them you're interested in purchasing a franchise). This is what happens when we let businesses charge people $2.50 for less than a dime worth of potatoes while simultaneously paying their employees only what is required to reduce their liability come time to get sued.
The people who sell this nonsense are trying to leverage our fear as a fucking commodity in service of those that they are, themselves, employed by. Your life is worth less to them than a fraction of a penny, which is what it would cost them to pay you a living wage.
Increasing the wage that producers are required to pay would would not reduce or remove any portion of their profits (they'd buy labor instead of combines at commensurate costs) but would cut out the distributive arm of the process which could no longer rely on the volume-in-time of product that a combine is capable of producing that human laborers simply are -not- no matter how many you clump together. Even here their profits would only be diminished from the many billions into the great many millions.
The current status of wage laws in this country is an issue of greed, no matter how you cut it. If you find that the margins of your business are so tight that you can't afford to pay a wage greater than the minimum than I have to tell you, unequivocally and demonstrably, that you're bad at what you do....and should find a better way to leverage your assets. Mcdonalds isn;'t toiling under the same problem that you are, they turn considerably more profit from an hour of labor than they pay out for that ;labor (plus all costs pursuant to their operation - and you can check this for yourself...just tell them you're interested in purchasing a franchise). This is what happens when we let businesses charge people $2.50 for less than a dime worth of potatoes while simultaneously paying their employees only what is required to reduce their liability come time to get sued.
The people who sell this nonsense are trying to leverage our fear as a fucking commodity in service of those that they are, themselves, employed by. Your life is worth less to them than a fraction of a penny, which is what it would cost them to pay you a living wage.
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