Obviously not. They don't have a clue. They've never held a real job or had to strive for a living. They think wealth is distributed, not earned.
"A worker's appetite works for him, for his hunger urges him on"
Proverbs 16:26
In order to succeed, the poor need most of all the spur of their poverty.In a rational and free society, low wages should be considered to be a motivation for the worker to improve himself, so that he can earn higher wages elsewhere.
I have a brilliant idea. Let’s pass a law requiring employers to provide expensive health insurance to their employees .... then, let’s double the minimum wage. Yeah .... that’s the ticket.
Without profit there is no business and there are no jobs, minimum-wage or otherwise.
Some are to dim to understand the fact they are not worth what they want.
Why stop at $15?...make it $50 or $100 and see what happens?
Over the weekend, a local radio program had a labor economist on who posited that higher wages make for a more productive worker. “You get what you pay for” I think, is what he said. But, the minimum wage is regarded by low skill workers as a right. They see no requirement to be more productive as it goes up. On the contrary, an increasing minimum wage is proof in their minds that they had been paid less than they were worth by their employers, and that there is no requirement to work harder for their wages. It has the effect of having workers look to politicians, and not their employers as the source of their economic advancement.
Marx, the left’s Jesus.
What Karl Marx would do, first of all, is line up all these “faith leaders” against a wall and machine-gun them. In front of their wives and children. It’s what his true disciples, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Il-Sung, Che and Castro did. Can’t have the opiate of the masses interfering with the march toward socialism...
I respected a pastor who was otherwise a good man but was a sucker for this sort of “logic.” The fallacy in that “logic” is the assumption that the outputs of a business “just are.” His wife asserted that employers were obligated to pay for health insurance for all employees, for instance.I asked her if she employed anyone, or had any intention to employ anyone. She did not. And yet she wouldn’t accept that
Matthew 23:4: For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.had any relevance to her position. I don’t agree with her assessment.
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