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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