"Living Wage" According To Guest Columnist MAJORDAWG!!!
Liberals love the phrase “a living wage”. They seem to see worker compensation as some sort of birthright. It’s as if they think the money that workers are paid springs up out of the ground with that money they use on everything else they love to spend on. They don’t see the connection between wages and business owners. If I had a nickel for every time one of my liberal friends or, sadly, uninformed former students posted something brilliant about how people need to make more in order to have “enough” money, well, I’d be able to pay everyone “a living wage”.
But business owners will only run their own businesses and employ people if they can earn a living that is (controlling for a few other factors) better than the one they can earn working for someone else. When it becomes less profitable to own your own business, the jobs go away and wages go to zero. But unions always want workers to make more, always. They see business owners as an unlimited source of income and expect them to pony up for the livelihood they believe their members deserve. However, there is truly only ONE way to approach this. Does the worker generate enough revenue to justify the wage he seeks? If not, the business owner is reducing his own income to favor the worker. That’s a charity and that’s not what business owners are doing.
In May, in several major cities, fast food workers went out on strike. In this example, McDonald’s workers walked out of a Detroit location asking for an increase in pay. Not surprisingly, they were organized by Charles Williams II, the Michigan leader of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, because of course Al has to put his finger in everyone’s eye at some point. The article, though poorly written, makes a great example of what happens when there are such work stoppages and demands made in low skill industries. Two workers were still inside this McDonald’s busting their humps to fill as many orders as they could, but the strike and slow service cut traffic for the business. And here’s the ringing indictment of the organizer’s intellect from his own lips; "I think everybody realizes it’s important for people who are at the bottom.. to get a raise because it helps everybody and it grows the economy," Williams said.
Liberals love the phrase “a living wage”. They seem to see worker compensation as some sort of birthright. It’s as if they think the money that workers are paid springs up out of the ground with that money they use on everything else they love to spend on. They don’t see the connection between wages and business owners. If I had a nickel for every time one of my liberal friends or, sadly, uninformed former students posted something brilliant about how people need to make more in order to have “enough” money, well, I’d be able to pay everyone “a living wage”.
But business owners will only run their own businesses and employ people if they can earn a living that is (controlling for a few other factors) better than the one they can earn working for someone else. When it becomes less profitable to own your own business, the jobs go away and wages go to zero. But unions always want workers to make more, always. They see business owners as an unlimited source of income and expect them to pony up for the livelihood they believe their members deserve. However, there is truly only ONE way to approach this. Does the worker generate enough revenue to justify the wage he seeks? If not, the business owner is reducing his own income to favor the worker. That’s a charity and that’s not what business owners are doing.
In May, in several major cities, fast food workers went out on strike. In this example, McDonald’s workers walked out of a Detroit location asking for an increase in pay. Not surprisingly, they were organized by Charles Williams II, the Michigan leader of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, because of course Al has to put his finger in everyone’s eye at some point. The article, though poorly written, makes a great example of what happens when there are such work stoppages and demands made in low skill industries. Two workers were still inside this McDonald’s busting their humps to fill as many orders as they could, but the strike and slow service cut traffic for the business. And here’s the ringing indictment of the organizer’s intellect from his own lips; "I think everybody realizes it’s important for people who are at the bottom.. to get a raise because it helps everybody and it grows the economy," Williams said.
