if everyone gets paid a liveable wage, then there will hardly be any impoverished people left to look down on and feel better about my own compatability wealthy yet grossly underpaid career. I need to feel better than others because it helps distract from the fact that the middle class is being systematically dismantled
If their wages are too low, they will resort to crime, usually victimless but nonetheless it would result in more healthcare providers… That means more taxes and politics!
If they’re subsidized by the government, that’s also more taxes and politics and corporations can exploit that.
Idk what to conclude.
Well if we go by the recently proposed living wage of 15 bucks an hour I wouldnt call that a living wage across the USA maybe in some rural areas. Realistically it would require radical action from our politicians to create something like that and I don't think they have the strength of character to enact said policies.
Originally posted by cdtm
Absolutely not. No employer should be forced to pay any amount of money. [B]LET THE MARKET DECIDE. [/B]
Sure that would seem reasonable until you realize the corporations are in bed with the body meant to protect it's citizens and best interests, so much so that not only do they not help with wages those corporations have congress make it harder to even compete with them in said markets.
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Sure that would seem reasonable until you realize the corporations are in bed with the body meant to protect it's citizens and best interests, so much so that not only do they not help with wages those corporations have congress make it harder to even compete with them in said markets.
A living wage would result in a more cohesive society. People would be happy outside of their work and so more productive inside it. Ultimately profits would go up. A win/win.
Universal basic income would be even better. Employers would have to find ways of making jobs attractive to employees. It would swing the balance of power of employment contracts to the worker as people would no longer be forced to accept poor pay and conditions for fear of becoming destitute.
UBI is also effectively inevitable within a generation or two. AI and automation will replace increasingly huge numbers of jobs. At some point we will have to either accept the current capitalist dogma that the owners and boards of huge companies who replace more and more of their workforce with automation solutions and can just dump the human workforce and keep the money, massively increasing the wealth gap to a dystopian disparity (think Elysium with Matt Damon) or we tax these companies in order to ensure a dwindling human workforce means billions of people becoming destitute.
Originally posted by cdtm
Who decided what a living wage is?A business who can't retain workers or attract new workers is a business unable to stay in business. Let the workers decide, by choosing where they work.
Amazon is the richest company and the planet and doesn't care one iota about retaining staff because fear of destitution will always drive people to accept terrible working conditions. (Think no toilet breaks and living in tents in woodland outside the Amazon depot in the middle of winter because the cost of travelling to work would wipe out the paltry amount you earn. This actually happened at my local main distribution hub right next to my brother's house)