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What a question!

“Why do we allow employers...”

Who is ‘’we’’?

Who are the employers?

As long as *MY* money creates the business, YOU have no say in anything.

The employer is the one who put up the money, did the foot work, and still does. That’s HIS/HER business, not yours, or the governments or anybody else’s.

To stick a WE and an ‘allow’ in there implies that you have a right to somebody else’s business, and you don’t.

There are many jobs that only pay minimum wage which is still only $7.25 per hour and that’s not enough to pay the rent, never mind the groceries. utilities, or luxuries. It translates to a bit over $k15k/yr. Poverty rate is 11k for a single person.

Of those min. wage jobs, there are those who help that employer make hefty profits. If the min. wage law was not in effect, that employer would pay 10 cents an hour if he could! Which of course is what opened up the door to unions that everybody seems to despise as well. It’s also why plantation owners fought so hard to maintain slavery. But even a slave owner had to supply shelter, clothing and food.

What’s the difference between a slave and a min. wage worker? Very little. Some difference yes, but very little. You can marry, and you can have kids and maybe the state won’t step in and take them away from you as long as you hand them over to the state while maintaining a ‘’yessa massa’’ attitude with regard to the small amount of time time you spend with them outside of the state’s watchful eye, and raise them according to state rules which is pretty much guaranteed to turn them into hoodlems to financially support the state’s prison system.

And, you can always change slave owners if someone else will have you. Yep, you’re free to travel, but you won’t have any $$ to travel on. Hope you like walking.

Min wage jobs are the result of poor decisions? Tell that to executives and managers from big companies who would be glad to have that min wage job, just to have a job.

And, as mentioned, if you can find a min wage job which gives you 40 hours a week, it’s a rare find.

Some min wage employees are worth their weight in gold. Some overpaid egotistical, narcissistic bosses aren’t worth the dirt they walk on.

And then there are volunteers who dedicate their lives ..full time even, who don’t even get a gasoline stippend, or even a gift card for McDonalds, that make life and death differences in the lives of people. Are THEY the result of bad decisions too???

Sometimes I read some of these posts and all I can do is shake my head and say...Wow...there are some pretty messed up people out there with value systems that aren’t worth the mega pixels they’re written on. No wonder we’re in trouble.