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>Because at the end of the day, if your company can't function without underpaying employees, then perhaps it's simply not a sustainable business/not sustainabl
by logicchains 8y ago
>Because at the end of the day, if your company can't function without underpaying employees, then perhaps it's simply not a sustainable business/not sustainable to hire that many employees yet.
Do you think the employees would prefer being unemployed or being underpaid? The business closing doesn't magically create new, better-paying jobs for them. If better-paying jobs existed that they were capable of doing, they'd already be doing those instead.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago> Do you think the employees would prefer being unemployed or being underpaid? Depends on how underpaid doesn't it? There's a line for everyone where all that work just isn't worth still not being able to afford a decent standard of living.
- logicchains 8y ago>There's a line for everyone where all that work just isn't worth still not being able to afford a decent standard of living. Then shouldn't this be up to the workers in question to decide? Closing their low-paying workplaces just cuts down their options, it doesn't create new jobs for them.
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- androidgirl 8y agoWorkers do decide on things such as the minimum wage, through voting. If a business wants to offer more pay to attract more employees, that's their call and their right.
- logicchains 8y ago>Workers do decide on things such as the minimum wage, through voting. That's a much weaker form of decide. A vote only means at least 50% of voters wanted it, so you can only say with certainty that there's a 50%+ chance that any given voter wants it. Whereas if a worker has chosen to work for a particular salary, there's a 100% chance he's chosen that as nobody else can make that decision for him.