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Fair wages and guaranteed jobs can both exist.
by babyshake 6y ago
Fair wages and guaranteed jobs can both exist.
- baron816 6y agoI agree. You can get full employment and a respectable standard of living floor through stuff like a negative income tax and universal health coverage. But making it illegal to work for what YOU consider a low wage and permitting labor cartels is counter productive.
- amznthrwaway 6y agoWe get it: you like abusive corporate behaviors and convince yourself of falsehoods to justify the abuse that you adore.
- acover 6y agoWhen bargaining with a monopoly or oligopoly, don't unions just put workers on an even footing? Market forces leave out every human factor. Unions add it back in.
- baron816 6y agoTwo wrongs don’t make a right. Let’s break up monopolies and encourage competition.
- djrobstep 6y agoWhy are labor cartels bad but capital cartels fine? Why must an employee bargain individually but a megacorp be allowed to bargain against them collectively?
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y agoCalling unions "labor cartels" is cheap. You might just as well call democratic systems "law cartels" by that logic.
- mhh__ 6y agoIs there any point in guaranteeing a job rather than just giving the person the money?
- newerduder 6y agodevil's advocate; doing a job takes time, whereas just getting paid does not. Making it harder to have an additional side-job. (it's a common belief that you need to be unemployed and looking for employment before getting a handout) Also, whoever's "guaranteeing" those jobs can get work done, if you're into that sort of thing. e.g. digging/filling holes, or building roads to nowhere.