Posted on 11/12/2015 10:42:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If we didn’t allow technology to replace jobs, we’d be stuck economically in the pre-industrial age, churning our own butter.
You’re totally free to retire to your own farm and live off the land if you want to live the pre-industrial lifestyle. Don’t force the rest of us to do it by not allowing technology to allow us to create things at the push of a button instead of through tedious manual labor.
We can ban the calculator and go back to the abacus too.
I suppose I’ll hear that every technological advancement that came before today should remain in place though. But any new ones that might affect your job need to be blocked. It’s the labor union way.
It was the very question at the Milwaukee debate. Since this doesn't state the questioned. I'll state closely to what was asked.
Mr Trump do you favor an increase in the minimum wage?
Trump said no of course and stating his reasons. Everyone on the FR debate thread thought was a good answer or they didn't speak up.
That was my point. Employers should decide how much they are willing to pay, not politicians.
Mr.Trump, repeat after me:
“The minimum wage must be abolished. The feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with wages and such interference is an economy killer.”
LOL
Now Mr.Trump, say it again:
“The minimum wage must be abolished. The feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with wages and such interference is an economy killer.”
Wages are NEVER too high unless the government has interfered with and artificially forced wage levels which of course they have.
ABOLISH minimum wage and let the voluntary cooperation of the competitive free market drive prices and wages, open up business opportunity, and expand the market and the economy.
He SHOULD demand the minimum wage be ABOLISHED. The feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with wages and doing such contracts economic opportunity especially for low-level and entry level workers.
He SHOULD demand ABOLISHING the minimum wage. The feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with wages and ding such contracts economic opportunity.
One thing at a time :)
I’ll try again...
He SHOULD demand the minimum wage be ABOLISHED.
The feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with wages and doing such contracts economic opportunity especially for low-level and entry level workers.
The taxes and regulations are too high. Wages are more or less amenable to free market accommodations. Taxes and regulations aren’t, those are imposed, as it were, from above.
If Donald doesn’t get that point, he is missing something terribly important.
True, it does help to look beyond some purple prose headline writer. (I wish FR posters would do that more too. I hate to see headlines like “Donald Trump Hates Cats” and the story is how he loves dogs, etc.)
Actually, not necessarily true. If done right, a country can do quite well with it's citizens doing the higher level stuff and importing the low end....but you can't do that with the outrageous welfare benefits, skyrocketing min wage laws, and all the taxes and regs on entrepreneurship. You ever think about that?
Thanks for the link, but I don’t get Twitter because when I send someone a message, it goes into Never Never Land. On Facebook, I can see what I wrote and am flagged when somebody messages me back.
I just sent Trump a message on the link you provided but I have no idea where it went and have no clue how to tell if he messages me back.
Not strictly true, but not material in this case.
Our currency is as stable as a currency can be in the world economy.
The inflation rate has been dropping over the last 5 years, and low oil prices should make it drop even further.
Wages are too high because govt takes TOO DAMN much. What took 1 wage earner, up to ~1960) now takes 2+.
What rest of us are you referring to? We're not talking about a company installing a machine to realize efficiencies and increase productivity. In case you've been out to lunch the past 20 years we're talking about replacing the human being himself. Unless you think that is not the trajectory of technological innovation or believe that, "new economies will develop."
When you've gotten to that stage of the thought process that contends with an economy that doesn't require people or vastly fewer people then let me know. Until then your sophomoric comparisons to luddite sentiment is just that, sophomoric.
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