It’s become pretty d@mn obvious that almost no American understands the free market anymore. We’ve got employees with no skills thinking that the world owes them everything with a cherry on top... And we’ve got employers who think the world owes them uber-supermen that will work for nothing.
And then they all cry to the government when their fantasies aren’t realized. Unions and their brain-dead ilk to the Democrats and business to the Republicans.
What both fail to realize is that we had, and still somewhat do have a free market. For most ALL goods AND services. And one type of service is a person’s labor. Hence a labor market.
And just like if you go to Wal-Mart and try to offer $50 for that nice 40” flat screen TV, you’ll get the same reaction if you offer $26/hr wages for and uber-tech guru. In other words, you’ll be laughed out of the market.
But instead of simply trying to pay what the current market rate is, whether for that nice 40” flatscreen or the uber-tech guru, most Americans now demand the government force the market to give them what they want at the price they want and d@mn the consequences.
And well, we are now starting to SEE the conseqences now.
It’s long past time that the government, for the most part, simply got out of the market. Keep the anti-monopoly laws in place, but BUTT OUT of labor, wages, and hiring/firing policies of our businesses.
$26 an hour??
I have two associate degrees now, just graduated from college again
When I had just an ASME, I knew Pascal, Fortran,C++, CADKEY, AUTOCAD, SOLIDWORKS, PRO-E.
I was NEVER offered a job more than $22.50, and that was as a mechanical technician, never that much as an engineer.
The problem is not people who dont have skills, it is employers who are unwilling to train people.
How did the first person do the job they are seeking help for? What did that person know?