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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