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The cashiers at the supermarket are paid a wage they agreed on when they were hired. There's nothing more fair than supply and demand.
by bad_user 3y ago
The cashiers at the supermarket are paid a wage they agreed on when they were hired. There's nothing more fair than supply and demand.
- earthling8118 3y agoThe number may be what they agreed upon but the value definitely doesn't remain stable.
- bad_user 3y agoRight. And the workers can renegotiate, or are free to leave.
- pgeorgi 3y agoSupply and demand is fair, if and only if both sides are entirely free to walk away from the deal. Depending on the labor market situation this isn't necessarily a given when the alternative is starvation.
- bad_user 3y agoIn the West, the alternative is seldom starvation. Given the very low rate of unemployment, despite the post-pandemic climate, it's pretty obvious that people still have choice when seeking employment. And there is always choice, which includes going back to school or moving to a different city. Heck, given the Internet, you can get education for free (until the ad-blockers ruin everything by normalizing paywalls). People forget, or never learned, what involuntary servitude or starvation was actually like, or what actually happened when the hammer and sickle was adopted as a state religion. And related to the parent, in the words of Thomas Sowell, the minimum wage is always zero. Or in other words, people should be glad that the demand for cashiers still exists, until the job gets fully automated. I find it funny, yet unsettling, that I have to state the obvious on HN of all places.
- pgeorgi 3y ago> Or in other words, people should be glad that the demand for cashiers still exists, until the job gets fully automated. ... because what happens otherwise?