Some of you are so utterly narrow minded you could fit your heads through a keyhole...
The reality in this world is that business will pay as little as they can get away with in every situation. If they don't, they're falling behind those who are more ruthless. On the other side of the coin... as you say... there are those who "aren't worth" 5 bucks an hour to anyone. I don't disagree with that point. The inverse of that situation is that if they aren't 'worth' a decent wage to anyone... what are they to do?? There's a LOT of people in this world today that no matter how hard they work will never ever have a pot to pis$ in because they just don't have the skills or mindset to function todays business environment. As our economies have 'advanced', it has generally moved management and skills towards an advanced, specialized level where the marginal can not compete... so they're weeded out. So then they work menial jobs for cash or whatever they can get, get enough to eat at the foodbank... and when things really take a dump or they just plain give up... then they go on welfare... where they find out that they get enough to eat, a roof over their heads, health care... and they don't have to work. Meanwhile... large corporations like McDonalds and many others continue to post record earnings... and the cycle repeats itself.
I've never been a fan of organized labor. I've generally considered myself fairly conservative in life and politics... but for anyone that's read even a small amount of the history of coal and steel in this country... it's nearly impossible to miss the cycle repeating itself as it happened 100 years ago. At least around here that resulted in a considerable amount of starvation, homelessness, riots and eventually murder. It's not that far away again. What took place around here 100 years ago didn't happen because the people were evil... or lazy or for lack of ingenuity. The uprisings that took place were the result of desperation...
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