sundin13 said:
In a time when people looking for jobs outnumber the amount of available jobs, the force that motivates people is the fact that menial wages are better than no wages. For a system without minimum wage to work, there needs to be a surplus of jobs which have to compete for laborers to drive wages upwards. Otherwise, the forces of supply and demand drive wages downwards until you find the person who is willing to work for the least amount of money. That doesn't mean that higher minimum wage is better, it means that a middle ground should be reached which provides reasonable wages leading to reasonable costs for companies. Going too far on either end is potentially damaging. |
I can agree with a lot of this, but it's still not slave. If there was no one to work for, you would still have to produce some sort of labor to survive. Get rid of it all and this won't change. I agree there are some scumbag employers (and employees).
A minimum wage is fine I think, but as you say, there has to be a medium. $3.00 more than the national minimum wage may not be a medium and doubling it certainly isn't.
