Posts by Saintbertholdt

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

Thank you. The reply was honest. I think that things changed when corporations gained a legal identity. Even Henry Ford warned that this was a bad idea.

Well organizations go back very far and seem to be an organizing principle employed by humans. I believe a feature of global evolution.

The idea of an organization being a legal person enables organizations to outlive its founder, for example: Ford, Hewlett Packard, IBM and so on.

The problem also being unlimited liability. If a human supersedes the organization he or she is the head of, the management/workers will always be at risk and not the corporation. Now this may sound like a good idea until you have malicious litigation and so on.

BTW I'm also conflicted about the rights of corporations to some extent.

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

In the retail establishments where I have worked people have been forced to work "off the clock" (free labor for the company) Why should anyone have to wait until it gets worse?

I don't know. Shouldn't market forces perhaps correct it?

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

...you then arrest them for non-payment of bills.

WAIT A MINUTE... Are you proposing the bringing back of debtors jail?

Oh BTW the "living wage" goes back to Adam Smith.

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

Injustice is rampant in labor and if there are no unions it's because union organizing has been squashed by the Walmarts and Kmarts of this nation. Workers who try to organize for labor in those establishments get blacklisted and booted by their employers.

Remember this exactly what happened in England in the 19th century in the mining industry. When conditions deteriorated beyond the believable, the unions came into existence irrespective of the mining magnates bullying tactics.

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

I'm talking about a lower middle class wage for those who are now the working poor.

The problem being as follows: Is the wage meant for a single person, or should two adults combined be able to afford your proposed lifestyle. What about children? How many do you want the family to be able to afford? 2,3,1 or zero?

Are you proposing a multi tiered minimum wage?

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

So what about the capitalist argument: The market will bare - I'm ignorant of this. Please explain, using monosyllabic words and pictures ...

Ok ok... in other words supply and demand.

I don't believe people should expect the state to pay for their children, e.g. if a husband gets fired from his job, he should not be allowed to add to his brood unless he can afford to do so.

How do you discourage him? Taxation? Vasectomy? :)

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

...If they don't have unions like the UFCW that is because they haven't organized for one so far not because they don't need one.

Yeah sort of exactly: If injustice is rampant in labor, human beings will organize to counter it. The argument being the system seems to be working.

It is not an abstraction like "the market" but rather the marketeers, the corporate elite, who decide.

Lets just be clear: 90% of US companies have less than 19 employees.

Also 50% of all employment in the US is by small and medium businesses.

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

Rent in a moderate rent area (Not too poor and not too rich) + Basic food costs times the number of dependents (No eating out on a regular basis) + Car mileage and car insurance expenses for driving to and from work and supermarket + Utility and Internet bills + 20% for unforeseen circumstances which always occur.

That sounds a bit like an average wage and not a minimum wage.

For a single provider or a family of two adult workers?

How many dependents? Isn't one straying into the domain of social engineering?

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

A sensible minimum wage should be a part of that.

So your argument goes back to the original idea of labor in the late 19th and first part of the 20th century, where the minimum wage fought for was a "living wage" instead of what it seems to have become today: a price floor primarily designed to curb exploitation.

But economists argue that labors original idea has become irrelevant. They point to the natural decline of trade unions in the 20th century as the indicator that businesses have met workers expectations to a large extent.

So what about the capitalist argument: The market will bare.

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What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

by Village Idiot in

during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

do you agree and if so why?.

my two cents on this issue; do the math.

Saintbertholdt

Not sure, but a big issue should be geographical area.

Interesting idea. What about people flocking to areas with higher minimum wages? Wouldn't it contribute to accelerated urbanization? Is that something one wants?

It must be higher than any safety net of benefits...

So it should be higher than social benefits. Sounds reasonable.