“I guess paying below a living wage is acceptable.”
It is absolutely acceptable.
Whatever an employee agrees to accept from an employer is acceptable. There should be no outside interference in that transaction.
If you don’t like the wages offered, go work somewhere else. Nobody owes you a living.
Not every job is WORTH a “living wage”.
You sound like a Marxist.
First off, I’m a conservative (independent). Second, in alot of communities there is nothing but subpar wages. Isn’t it interesting, that here (Huntington), that one can make more an hour at McDonalds than at Walmart.
All I’m saying is that everyone (employed) deserves to be able to feed their family and pay their bills. As for the competition, I agree that there needs to be the free open market. As for making profit, I agree that is the reason for opening of a business. But most business owners to go out of their way to end the competition. Nor is it a main priority. But the fine folks in Bentonville seem to see it as their right to become the only retail outlet in the country. If you want to know what that will entail, ask a senior citizen that had to buy from a company store in minig areas. Once Walmart gets what it wants, by being the only rteail store in the country, where will the free enterprise system be?
My In-laws rented for 20 years and saved up money to buy their first home, with cash....what a quaint idea to the young of today...Save for what you want..
Unions can make many lazy.....they deserve everything and don't want to work for anything...just give us the money. Thats what unions do for people, but their cut comes off the top....of the workers salary...