Your post are quite socialistic in nature. You're saying the amount of money floating around now is the same as 50 years ago? Really? You are right in the point that education will not make every thing equal but not for the reason you say. We are not all created equal. There will always be people to do the minimum wage jobs because for some people that is all they can do. They just don't have the knowledge and never will to better themselves. So we should artificially inflate their wages to make it some how more equal? As far as college goes, how many people spend tens of thousands of dollars getting degrees for jobs that either don't pay well or have very little chance of success? People 50 years ago realized they had to work hard and start on the bottom. Not so much today. The owner of the company I work for has a hell of a time hiring people. My job can be stressful, dirty, physically hard. Too many people don't want jobs like this anymore even though you stay in it long enough and learn what you're doing it pays well.
If people are going to live, they need to be paid enough money to be able to live.
If a business needs people to work for them, it is their obligation to pay them enough to live.
If you are going to design a society, that is how it needs to be to be sustainable.
Companies aren't obligated to pay people enough to be rich, just a living wage.
How else can jobs get done without workers, and how can you have workers unless they are living people?
How can people live unless they are paid enough money?
The government shouldn't have to pay the difference.
You do understand all that?
Sure, all people aren't equal, but everyone who does a job should get at least a living wage for it, with higher skill jobs paying more.
We don't artificially inflate wages. We put wages back to where they always were before when people made a living wage even at minimum wage.
You see, wages were made ARTIFICIALLY LOW by big businesses.
Paying a living wage just reverses that injustice to the workers and the government.
I respect the fact that you made a career as a machinist. A machinist is a respectable profession. I realize that you worked hard to get where you are. I respect that as well.
However, you probably should be paid more, and everyone else should get at least a living wage.
Imagine you are playing a video game about how to build and keep a civilization going. Do you think that civilization would last if the minimum wage workers didn't get a living wage? They would need to get money from a source other than their job. It might be drugs or stealing or prostitution, or welfare or credit, but the extra money would have to come from somewhere.
There might even be revolution in this game. You would need to divert funds to pay for more police and the military, ect.
If people don't get enough money to live on from their jobs, where will they get it?
If those people die, they can't work anymore. Those people aren't going to want to die, especially if they have families. They will commit crime first.
Even at the bottom 50 years ago they still got more pay than they do today.
Those who own McDonalds and Wal-Mart and KFC ect have the money to pay their workers more but they don't because they want to keep it for themselves.
Prices would not NEED to increase at Wal Mart, ect in order for people to be paid more. That family that owns Wal mart makes 120 million per person for 6 people. They aren't worth it. They don't contribute that much. If they employed everyone at a living wage plus benefits then maybe they would be worth 20 million per. It probably should be more like 8 million per. They take money but don't provide that much value. They mainly take. The same with Mc Donalds, ect.
Car manufacturers cut workers , have bad sales records for their products, and yet the CEOs give themselves bonuses. Hmm.
What you have to understand is that the money to pay these people to live is coming from somewhere if they are living. If it isn't from their jobs it is from crime or from the government.
That's just the way it is. The question is where is the money coming from? Shouldn't the money come from the employers instead of from the government? Either tax dollars or government credit is paying for it. People are paying more either way, whether they like it or not or they know it or not.
People are paying NOW. Taxpayers are paying now.
However, companies like Google put their money overseas so it isn't taxed, and then they loan it to the U.S. government with interest. They should just be paying that in taxes, but nope. All so the top people can make the most money, and they avoid paying their fair share, for the benefits of the system they reap more than anyone else.
