The problem is that skilled jobs are harder to come by. McDonalds is shutting down real restaurants Walmart is closing real stores, Staples is closing small computer fixing companies, etc. They take these people who can earna healthy living on their own and by using their size leverage their prices so that people shop there instead which closes the places that offer living wages and forces those people who've spent their lives learning something or opening something to switch to a low paying job.
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jpx7 (02-06-2014)
I'm ok with children working a few hours a week, I did it growing up. BUT I'm not OK with children working more than 10 max. I'm not OK with them doing labor unless they're working on a family farm.
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Zito, only about 10% of the US workforce works in retail. They aren't the only jobs out there.
Ivermectin Man
My accounting firm hires people ALL the time. People work here for a couple of years and then move on to private companies that pay more with less hours. Banks hire tellers ALL the time. Not a wonderful job but most banks will start you at 10 per hour with benefits.
There are jobs out there and if you are making minimum wage at that age then its your own fault and shouldn't be expecting someone else to bail you out.
Natural Immunity Croc
I think most people can get out of minimum wage BUT there has to be minimum wage workers or Walmart and McDonalds would go out of business.
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goldfly (12-20-2015)
No they wouldn't. Because then they'd have to raise their prices and they'd be out of a market.
Bottom line is it's time for consumerism in america to stop. If you can't afford something from a place that actually pays people, then don't have it. Anyone who buys a TV from Walmart should be fined for being a moron.
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You're quite an enthusiastic advocate for the conditions that allow sweatshops to prosper. You've expressed admiration for the brand of capitalism practiced in the US until the early 20th century. Why be so coy about embracing the results of those policies and conditions?
If you want to go ahead and embrace them as a lesser evil, please do. But quit wiggling around and evading the question.
Julio, just so I know, do you think that eliminating the minimum wage would result in children dying in sweatshops here in the states?
Didn't we have an "absence of a willing labor force" discussion on here just a while back?
I also feel like no one has addressed the issue I brought this thread back with... maybe it doesn't need addressing, but that is the way employers feel (small businesses in the service industry) at the moment in our little micro economy.
Ivermectin Man