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Old 12-06-2013, 12:46 PM
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Bingo! Taxpayers are enabling this corporate behavior, but it keeps the cost of that Big Mac down.
One way of looking at it, another way is that corporate greed is taking advantage of human compassion.
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Old 12-06-2013, 12:52 PM
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One way of looking at it, another way is that corporate greed is taking advantage of human compassion.
Walton family, most likely the wealthiest family on earth;

"LOOK, our employees are starving! Somebody please DO something!"

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We certainly live in interesting times, Rob.

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Old 12-06-2013, 01:21 PM
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One way of looking at it, another way is that corporate greed is taking advantage of human compassion.
Another way to look at it would be that corporate greed will take advantage of anything it can, and the only way they can take advantage of "human compassion" is if it is made mandatory and centralized and handed out with little to no oversight as to who actually needs it.
An individual with free will of where to apply compassion would not give food stamps to someone who is willing and able and actually working. Nor would they need to, as the business would be forced to compensate their employees in such a way that they could continue to return to work and not starve.
McDonalds will pay as much as they have to to get bodies in the kitchen, and they'll pass the cost on to the consumer.
The taxpayer is going to pay one way or the other. I'd much rather pay more for my burger than pay the government to subsidize their employees.
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Old 12-06-2013, 01:38 PM
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Another way to look at it would be that corporate greed will take advantage of anything it can, and the only way they can take advantage of "human compassion" is if it is made mandatory and centralized and handed out with little to no oversight as to who actually needs it.
An individual with free will of where to apply compassion would not give food stamps to someone who is willing and able and actually working. Nor would they need to, as the business would be forced to compensate their employees in such a way that they could continue to return to work and not starve.
McDonalds will pay as much as they have to to get bodies in the kitchen, and they'll pass the cost on to the consumer.
The taxpayer is going to pay one way or the other. I'd much rather pay more for my burger than pay the government to subsidize their employees.
Dayum Was. You're the last guy I would've expected to support raising the minimum wage (big government telling business owners what to do) So, what's a living wage? $12? $15?
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Old 12-06-2013, 02:51 PM
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Another way to look at it would be that corporate greed will take advantage of anything it can, and the only way they can take advantage of "human compassion" is if it is made mandatory and centralized and handed out with little to no oversight as to who actually needs it.
An individual with free will of where to apply compassion would not give food stamps to someone who is willing and able and actually working. Nor would they need to, as the business would be forced to compensate their employees in such a way that they could continue to return to work and not starve.
McDonalds will pay as much as they have to to get bodies in the kitchen, and they'll pass the cost on to the consumer.
The taxpayer is going to pay one way or the other. I'd much rather pay more for my burger than pay the government to subsidize their employees.
Ah yes, Aesop's fable time, that poor sod who has been at the job centre six days a week and mailing resumes when he can find money for postage. He is not working because they have sent his job to China or India.
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Old 12-06-2013, 03:16 PM
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Dayum Was. You're the last guy I would've expected to support raising the minimum wage (big government telling business owners what to do) So, what's a living wage? $12? $15?
A living wage is as much as I can get.
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A living wage is as much as I can get.
Paging Gordon Gekko...
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