02-16-2019, 06:02 AM
I'm all for paying people as much money as they are worth, but the problem is that small businesses frequently don't turn a profit for years, and sometimes never. The problem with unrealistic minimum wages
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leaves me wondering just how many of those businesses were successful...
Good points. Running a small business is difficult. I also agree, some workers are not worth what they're paid no matter how little that might be.
Let's reverse our view of the situation and ask, are there also business owners who are not competent? Or who are capable but misjudge the market? Or who take out a loan in 2007 to start a business and the entire economy collapses all around them? There are business owners and CEO's (and let's face it, others in positions of power) who shouldn't be running the show.
Now back to those workers, there are some how are just downright unemployable. They are the ones who sat in the back of the classroom, never studied, barely turned in homework, skipped school, and flunked tests. If they manage to get hired shoveling whatever, that might be the peak of their work career. Unlike geochem who looked at his situation and thought "I could do better. Those entry level experiences provided me with the necessary motivation to develop the skill sets to do better," there are people who can't do better, and who won't develop skills other than shoveling. Whether it's by their choice, their lack of motivation, or innate ability, they have no way out. But they have to eat, and hunger will motivate them to search for food and other less desirable inclinations one way or another.
“Apparently this thing is such an emergency that it will immediately be followed by golf.” - Haw. Sen. Brian Schatz, 2/15/19
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leaves me wondering just how many of those businesses were successful...
Good points. Running a small business is difficult. I also agree, some workers are not worth what they're paid no matter how little that might be.
Let's reverse our view of the situation and ask, are there also business owners who are not competent? Or who are capable but misjudge the market? Or who take out a loan in 2007 to start a business and the entire economy collapses all around them? There are business owners and CEO's (and let's face it, others in positions of power) who shouldn't be running the show.
Now back to those workers, there are some how are just downright unemployable. They are the ones who sat in the back of the classroom, never studied, barely turned in homework, skipped school, and flunked tests. If they manage to get hired shoveling whatever, that might be the peak of their work career. Unlike geochem who looked at his situation and thought "I could do better. Those entry level experiences provided me with the necessary motivation to develop the skill sets to do better," there are people who can't do better, and who won't develop skills other than shoveling. Whether it's by their choice, their lack of motivation, or innate ability, they have no way out. But they have to eat, and hunger will motivate them to search for food and other less desirable inclinations one way or another.
“Apparently this thing is such an emergency that it will immediately be followed by golf.” - Haw. Sen. Brian Schatz, 2/15/19
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