The minimum wage should be lowered not raised.
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You know, I realized something while reading this article: Let's suppose that this raising of the minimum wage thing is not a progressive attempt to increase everyone's worth nor to cash in on getting more taxes and regulating businesses more and more.
In a down market, a highly skilled and temperamented worker will have no choice but to work a minimum wage job or two...this will leave the younger less experienced worker at a disadvantage...not just disadvantaged but outright disempowered from learning an important life long lesson: How to produce and create value in the work place, how to behave in that work place and learn work place work ethics. Sometimes these are hard learned lessons but once they are learned that young person will apply these lessons over their working life, whether they work for someone else or for themselves, not to mention learning how to be fiscally responsible among a host of other life lessons. In short, these young folks, having these experience will likely never have to depend upon pappa and momma government.
Now, raising the minimum wage would force this to happen, also forcing small and low wage skill businesses to look for alternatives in order to stay in business and to stay competitive. But...what does this do to the older more experienced worker? Wouldn't this disempower them also...in spite of the higher wage offer, even if it was close to that persons previous wage. We are forgetting the importance of, responsibility and satisfaction,; never mind having to work doing menial tasks, which would have to be boring as hell; wouldn't this play a role in that persons self worth?, his ability to provide for himself and family and even with the most humble person with family understanding, isn't this the biggest downer a man or women might experience. Might they, in an effort and even justifiably so, try to recoup some of that lost income from the very government that created this situation in the first place? Even if they have always been self supporting their whole life up to this point? It happens.
We might be tempted to say these individuals are weak and can't compete...but how many of us that haven't had the benefit of a skill set that can be applied to many occupations could effectively deal with this situation.
Those of us that have these widely marketable skill sets or even hobbies that could turn a buck are the lucky ones...we had those life long lessons at an early age...but what of those that came after us?
What I'm asking here is: Could this be the progressive reason and plan to get us all, young and old to be more dependent on government and perhaps to break our spirit in some respect?
You know, I realized something while reading this article: Let's suppose that this raising of the minimum wage thing is not a progressive attempt to increase everyone's worth nor to cash in on getting more taxes and regulating businesses more and more.
In a down market, a highly skilled and temperamented worker will have no choice but to work a minimum wage job or two...this will leave the younger less experienced worker at a disadvantage...not just disadvantaged but outright disempowered from learning an important life long lesson: How to produce and create value in the work place, how to behave in that work place and learn work place work ethics. Sometimes these are hard learned lessons but once they are learned that young person will apply these lessons over their working life, whether they work for someone else or for themselves, not to mention learning how to be fiscally responsible among a host of other life lessons. In short, these young folks, having these experience will likely never have to depend upon pappa and momma government.
Now, raising the minimum wage would force this to happen, also forcing small and low wage skill businesses to look for alternatives in order to stay in business and to stay competitive. But...what does this do to the older more experienced worker? Wouldn't this disempower them also...in spite of the higher wage offer, even if it was close to that persons previous wage. We are forgetting the importance of, responsibility and satisfaction,; never mind having to work doing menial tasks, which would have to be boring as hell; wouldn't this play a role in that persons self worth?, his ability to provide for himself and family and even with the most humble person with family understanding, isn't this the biggest downer a man or women might experience. Might they, in an effort and even justifiably so, try to recoup some of that lost income from the very government that created this situation in the first place? Even if they have always been self supporting their whole life up to this point? It happens.
We might be tempted to say these individuals are weak and can't compete...but how many of us that haven't had the benefit of a skill set that can be applied to many occupations could effectively deal with this situation.
Those of us that have these widely marketable skill sets or even hobbies that could turn a buck are the lucky ones...we had those life long lessons at an early age...but what of those that came after us?
What I'm asking here is: Could this be the progressive reason and plan to get us all, young and old to be more dependent on government and perhaps to break our spirit in some respect?
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AND, I think that the mystique of taking drugs would be less if it wasnt illegal and cool. Being able to buy them at walmart just isnt rebellious enough to attract teenagers who want to take a stand against authority.
But it does explain Nancy Pelosillyni.
Even the us constitution didn't protect the rights of the Indians right from the start and certainly doesn't protect our rights now. How can we get a group of honey badger humans to change their nature?
Today we have a surplus of un/low skilled labor, thus wages are kept low. However, a mandatory minimum wage Rob's capital from business paying the lowest producers more than they are worth. This causes this extra cost to be passed on on the products, actual items and services to cost more, driving inflation.
Even the most complex device has many low skill produced parts.
Those that "think" they will get ahead with a rise in minimum wage find they do not. The only ones that get any advantage to the increase are
1; Government. They gain votes, and with inflation, tax revenues. They can simply inflate their Wa yu out of debt.
2; Foreign competitors. The costs of production go up here, let's their products become more valuable. This allows them higher pricing with no improvement of their own, or, to under cut the prices of the "not so smart" countries that have increased their labor costs with artificial costs.
The big question is why can't "we the people" see that while wages here have been stagnant, we are still increasing our labor force by both increasing the number of people we bring in (green cards , immigration) and our lax boarder enforce (Dream Act, DACA, refugees, etc).
Anyone with any understanding of economics, knows that you will not increase the price of anything by increasing the supply of said same thing. Especially when supply is already larger than demand.
What a concept.
What once cost 5 cents now costs 5 dollars or more.
employers will pay better wages for potentially better employees. I say potential because an employer does not really know if a new employee is good until they start working. Then the employer has sound reason to pay a better wage. also, if the employee recognizes they are doing a good job they can or will ask for greater wages. The employer at this point will be willing to pay it. so end the minimum wage.
suggestion...i participated in debate in high school (just had my 50th reunion) and judged at my kid's high school debates...the key to winning was defining the terms of the debate...moved your probability over 90% chance of winning...
i do not use the word "progressive"...it has a positive or vague emotional connotation ...instead i use...fascist totalitarian...labels them immediately with a negative connotation and they have to fight to get back to neutral...
also, we started out as a "republic" and were moved to a "democracy" on the way to a totalitarian oligarchy which is just a hop, skip, and a jump away...
https://youtu.be/ca8Z__o52sk
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