The issue is that usually they don't because we don't allow people to starve etc. we will provide subsidized housing like Section 8 and we also provide food stamps etc. So the government is then subsidizing the living for people that is indirectly allowing corporations to pay low wages.
What happens when because of that exchange the corporations are able to pay a low wage that results in the person applying for government assistance so we are then indirectly subsidizing the corporations ability to pay a low wage? I kind of feel as part of that exchange now because my tax dollars are subsidizing it.
If you can have a comfortable life flipping burgers, what is the motivation to go to school and learn real skills?
The issue is that usually they don't because we don't allow people to starve etc. we will provide subsidized housing like Section 8 and we also provide food stamps etc. So the government is then subsidizing the living for people that is indirectly allowing corporations to pay low wages.
That is correct and lots of people fail to see this. That fat tax bill you have to pay out of your pocket is subsidizing the wages of those workers.
It's called Lemon socialism, privatize the gains, socialize the losses and costs.
If you can have a comfortable life flipping burgers, what is the motivation to go to school and learn real skills?
I'll take a controversial stance for the sake of discussion: I'll say that if you put in a solid 40 hours of honest work a week, you should be able to put food on your own table and a pay for a roof over your own head - no matter what your job title is. That would be the rule even for the least-paid but most-popular jobs such as retail salesperson, cashier, waiter or janitor.
I think that there should be no such thing as the "working poor." If you are willing to work, then you should receive enough salary to live without 24/7 financial stress.
If you force corporations to pay people a "living wage" they will raise prices to account for the higher cost.
So, now instead of the rich paying taxes to subsidize poor people, the poor and middle class will have the burden in higher costs of goods.
I think that there should be no such thing as the "working poor." If you are willing to work, then you should receive enough salary to live without 24/7 financial stress.
Notice how the people calling for "living wage" are never the ones doing the hiring or paying it. Way to speak truth to power when your modus operandi is find a cause you believe in, then look for someone else to pay for it.
Notice how the people calling for "living wage" are never the ones doing the hiring or paying it. Way to speak truth to power when your modus operandi is find a cause you believe in, then look for someone else to pay for it.
This I'm all for.I never said force corporations to pay higher wages.
What I am saying is remove all taxpayer funded aid such as food stamps, section 8 housing,Medicaid etc...
Then taxpayers will no longer be funding out of thier pockets low wage jobs for private for profit corporations.
Then the free market will have to decide how to compensate employees without the assistance of taxpayers out of public funds.
If you can have a comfortable life flipping burgers, what is the motivation to go to school and learn real skills?
Just because you see a job as undesirable and/or easy, does not mean it is not necessary for society. If society deems that such a job is necessary, should that person not be paid a liveable wage?
If thats true, where are you going to find people to flip your burgers? If nobody should be flipping burgers because it is beneath everybody, and everybody should have more skills and a better job, I hope you are prepared to cook your own burgers.
Fact is, there are lots of jobs that you dont want to do, that somebody has to do. Sewer maintenance. Plumbing. Nursing the elderly and infirm. Proctologist. Urologist. Gastroenterologist. Flipping burgers. Cashier.
Just because you see a job as undesirable and/or easy, does not mean it is not necessary for society. If society deems that such a job is necessary, should that person not be paid a liveable wage?
HA, no.. no no no 1000 times
These minimum wage jobs are not meant to be careers for people. They are high school or college jobs for people, not end all be all jobs. If you want to work a blue collar job, become an apprentice and work your way up into a trade, whether its a plumber, lineman, welder, etc.
I'm not suggesting a "first class" lifestyle or career. I'm saying that instead, they should be able to support themselves.
You work at a job full time, even the shittiest lowest paying job, it ought to be enough for a safe, but low end, apartment, as well as health care, feeding yourself and your children, etc ....
If you are in a career then you most likely already have a house, or can afford a mortgage, and a decent car, and yes, would like to make more money, but, make enough to live pretty comfortably.
I'm suggesting that people who work shitty dead end jobs should be able to get "a piece of the pie".
People should not live to work. They should instead work to live.
You work at a job full time, even the shittiest lowest paying job, it ought to be enough for a safe, but low end, apartment, as well as health care, feeding yourself and your children, etc ....