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"Instead of focusing on solving the clear, heart rending, abject poverty around them" That requires ensuring everybody that wants a job has one unless exempted
by neilwilson 9y ago
"Instead of focusing on solving the clear, heart rending, abject poverty around them"
That requires ensuring everybody that wants a job has one unless exempted by age or infirmity.
Having more jobs than people means that the workers have the upper hand in wage negotiations. They always have another option.
And if there is one thing business hates, it's having to compete - particularly for workers.
A society that cannot work out that healthcare should be based upon need, not ability to pay, is already moribund and dying on the inside.
- droidist2 9y ago> Having more jobs than people means that the workers have the upper hand in wage negotiations. They always have another option. Businesses would never let this happen though, they would just lobby the government to let them bring in more workers from other countries until they have the upper hand again. The third world has virtually an endless supply.
- pkaye 9y agoBusinesses are run by people. Someone right here could choose to start a business and give the workers whatever they want in their wage negotiations. The question is can you do it sustainably.
- mjevans 9y agoIsn't that exactly what 'fixing' the visa situation about? (Also, this is why I'm for giving those foreign workers on visas an easier route to becoming /citizens/ instead; and getting rid of indentured servitude visas.)
- PeterisP 9y agoIt's naturally that they'll lobby the government for that, but it doesn't mean that they should or will succeed in that, after all, the (current) workers have all the votes that politicians want.