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Now your employer, ConstructCorp, decides they need to cut costs. They find Pedro, who will work for $4 an hour.

It's interesting that you chose the construction industry for your example. From 1995 to 2005, we created almost 2 million construction jobs in this country. The average earnings for a construction worker went from $14.73 per hour in 1995 to $19.72 in 2005. This increase easily outpaced the rate of inflation. Pedro may be working but he isn't doing it for $4.00/hr.

They'll get your job every time, because it costs less to hire them.

I guess you don't believe the old axiom that you get what you pay for?

Higher income for the wealthy + lower income for workers = wider wealth gap.

If you look at this graph showing the income gap between rich and the poor you'll see that, even though the gap is wider, everyone is becoming wealthier because both the top and bottom are rising to levels much higher than before.

From the Freedom Keys website:

If the rich weren’t free to "get ever richer," developing or investing in ever-increasing productivity, the poor would NEVER have any chance to improve their conditions at all, let alone to obtain their ever-increasing access to the latest tools of that expanding productivity, making every hour of their labor ever-more valuable.

Wealth is based on productivity, and productivity is expandable. In fact, productivity is fabulously expandable."

If you want to get rich and/or stay that way, or if you want your kids or other loved ones to do so, you'd damn well better stand up for everyone else's right to do so too."