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cui bono

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7. You aren't taking into account that the companies can well afford to up the pay

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:42 AM

Mar 2014

at least 10 fold. So it is immoral for them not to.

Paying people just barely enough to survive, making them work in appalling conditions where they will get sick and live a short life or go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills is a way to keep people too scared to speak out. When people are fighting for work they take what they can get. If you keep the jobs scarce you can dictate how low the pay will be since people are scrambling for the jobs.

Keeping people in survival mode ensures that they will not stand up to you, that they will not organize as they will be in fear of losing their job.

Sorry, but that sort of thinking is basically saying the worker should be grateful for whatever their overlords deem reasonable. That is immoral. The overlords have multiple mansions, yachts, cars... it is immoral to take that much more money than the people who make you what you are.

I may be rambling a bit, it's almost 4am and I really should go to bed.

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“No business which depends for existence......... [View all] Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 OP

I believe statements like that are almost considered treason in today's corporately djean111 Mar 2014 #1

Ichingcarpenter Diclotican Mar 2014 #2

K&R ReRe Mar 2014 #3

I don't think that "offering very low wages is evil" makes sense. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #4

If you need to take care of yourself and your family you are *not* in a position cui bono Mar 2014 #5

I'm afraid the first part of that makes no sense at all. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #6

You aren't taking into account that the companies can well afford to up the pay cui bono Mar 2014 #7

Here's why that is incorrect Glitterati Mar 2014 #9

Wage Slavery is what you are talking about? Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #12

Wage slavery is a contradiction in terms. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #13

The notion of wage slavery, taken reasonably, is actually rather difficult to refute Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #15

You have never been in the "lower classes" permanently Stargazer99 Mar 2014 #8

What makes you think paying an employee not enough to live is moral? Stargazer99 Mar 2014 #10

What makes you think not employing someone at all is moral? Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #11

That's a false choice. Giving them no job or giving them a shitty job. cui bono Mar 2014 #14

somewhere I read, or heard onethatcares Mar 2014 #16

Dang, I thought it was Campaign Obama Doctor_J Mar 2014 #17