What should minimum wage be?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Visionary8, Dec 3, 2007.

What should minimum wage be?

Poll closed Dec 8, 2007.
  1. 15$

    6 vote(s)
    28.6%
  2. 12$

    2 vote(s)
    9.5%
  3. 10$

    2 vote(s)
    9.5%
  4. 8$

    11 vote(s)
    52.4%
  1. poyayan

    poyayan

    Well, you can't expect these people to see a good deal in front of them...:) If they can, they probably make way more than minimum wage to start with.
     
    #21     Dec 4, 2007
  2. poyayan

    poyayan

    Well, you can't expect these people to see a good deal in front of them...:) If they can, they probably make way more than minimum wage to start with.
     
    #22     Dec 4, 2007
  3. since when is anyone entitled to move to california and live their version of their dream?

    you earn you way through life, you aren't entitled to sh*t.

    there should be no minimum wage.

    btw, if you felt you were underpaid, why the hell did you work there?
     
    #23     Dec 4, 2007
  4. now now, if we're gonna talk who is worth what,

    rest assured that no one is worth anything

    humans are one of the most pathetic beings on this planet, not for what they do, for the cheap beings they are
     
    #24     Dec 4, 2007
  5. since I don't respect a karma system, where there is an equal consequence, or even a consequence for an action

    Grandma can't afford an operation? Who gives a fuck about grandma, she can suffer and rot to death like every other fucking human has and will
     
    #25     Dec 4, 2007
  6. see it's not what she did that makes her deserve the suffering, it is what she is, a human being
     
    #26     Dec 4, 2007
  7. I'm all for enslaving humans

    but since this guy wants americans to be rich the nice way, it could be done by focusing on developing robots that take care of most human tasks, or by scamming other countries, not by raising the minimum wage
     
    #27     Dec 4, 2007
  8. It's called borderline slavery, because that is EXACTLY what it is. Turn substinence farming & local economies unbearable by cutting out local goods with cheap commericial crap, then establish sweatshops as the economic "savior".
    When the offshoring moves to the next lowest cost labor location, the current mass sweatshop workers will get exactly what they deserve.
    So expecting a right to use the bathroom is whining? Wow, haven't heard that one before.

    Using Industrialization oligarchs as examples is bad bad thinking. Considering that the true rise of their success always lies in cheating, lying, theft, manipulation and often murder.

    BTW, the opportunities in those ages were ten-fold of those today. That's why so many monopolies were created. You do realize this is back when they used to shoot workers for striking, something Carnegie was quite familiar with. Let alone murder competitors, but hey, that's REAL capitalism.

    Minimum wage is a by-product of the financial system. Ideally, it should be eliminated, but it can't happen. Consumerism would crumble due to wage pressures, which are happening anyway. It's mostly a moot point.
     
    #28     Dec 4, 2007