No Company Should Survive on Slave Labor

 ~ Rant ~  

If the only way a company can survive is by paying it's workers slave wages, then that company should not exist.

I've read lots of rational and reasonable sounding words to explain why companies absolutely must pay their workers slave wages.

What it boils down to is they are trying very hard to fool us into believing that paying unlivable wages is just good business.

Let's flip the situation around.

If the company costs too much and produces too little then that company, as if it were an employee, should be fired.

That company should not exist.

Why is it OK to pay slave wages, so employees are forced on to welfare, or in some cases, living on the street, just so the business can survive and continue to pay unlivable wages?

One argument to that is if the business goes under, then even more people will be unemployed.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... Go back and reread my sentence before that.

The employees are already on welfare or living on the streets. Being unemployed isn't much more of a change.

A truth of life: employees, at this level, are trapped with little to no prospect of ever escaping. The rare few who do, truly are rare and extremely lucky.

There was a time when being steady and reliable workers would ensure the employees would progress to better pay. Then with the extra money they could afford more education and progress even further. This upward mobility has been lost for most Americans.

Wages are too low.

The cost of living and the cost of education are too high.

I've written before how employers encourage welfare. There are systems in place to make sure people stay trapped in dead-end, slave-wage jobs because that is the only way most companies can survive.



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Desperation is About to Throw a Very Hard Punch

Rant

When reading about minimum-wage, livable wage, and employment in general, I frequently come across a line of thinking similar to what commenter "DaHerm" posted on DaggerPress.com:

"An number of folks (Noble, Keith, h) need to take Econ 101 again. Wages are not decided based on the relative cost of living. An employer decides how much he can afford to pay a worker based on the skills needed, the cost structure of the business, the value returned to the business by that employee and how competitive the job market is for different levels of skill sets. They are minimum wage jobs because they represent the minimum skills need to work, not necessarily to provide all of life’s creature comforts. It is then up to the individual to make appropriate use of their wages. Since poverty is relative in a given population, you can never remove it by artificially inflating the wages paid. Someone will always have more, others less."

Here, here!

Work hard and do whatever it takes to succeed.

Here, here!

Now... for a dose of non-academic reality:

"In desperate times, desperate people do desperate things."

We live in a time when many Americans are struggling to survive. Things have been bad for many years and are only getting worse. More and more Americans are becoming desperate.

The way things are going in America, people will work hard... to figure out who to rob for what they need to survive. In doing so, they will do whatever it takes to succeed,... even if it means killing you and your loved ones.

Oh, right... you're a suburban Rambo-wananbe, with all sorts of automatic weapons, just itching to gun-down anyone who comes near your side of the cul-de-sac.

You're not the only one with guns.

One bullet from a desperate, expert marksman with a hunting rifle and all your Rambo ammo (and everything else of yours of value) will be theirs for the taking.

The police?

Too few, too far away,... too late.

All the fancy, economic theories and models, and masters of business administration degrees won't hold-up very well against angry mobs.

As Mike Tyson said, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."

Many Americans are becoming more and more desperate; so far, quietly. But the way things have been going, and will continue for the foreseeable future, their silence will break and they will start throwing some very hard punches.



Reference

DaggerPress.com, DaHerm, 2041_09_05:
http://www.daggerpress.com/2014/09/05/the-big-q-should-fast-food-restaurants-pay-workers-15-per-hour/#comment-276658



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Disposable Employers

 ~ Musing the Balance of Things ~ 

Employers view employees as disposable garbage; I wonder how long it will be until employees look at employers as disposable?

Think about it...

During this global economic depression, bosses have taken delight in reminding their employees of just how disposable the workers are.

"You don't like it!? Then quit. There's five million illegals that will do your job for less."

America is crumbling into unstable, part-time, minimum-wage, temporary jobs.

These jobs pay the same, most come with zero benefits, and workers have to depend on welfare just to survive.

So why stick around?

Jobs are coming back but most of them are coming back as part-time, minimum-wage, temporary jobs with no benefits.

So why stay in a miserable, part-time job working for a jerk of a boss?

There are millions other dead-end jobs out there; some of the bosses may even be decent enough to work for.

Eventually workers are going to figure this out and will begin treating employers as disposable.



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