Wednesday, May 6, 2009
minimum wage
The government has made it so that minimum wage in this country is still not a livable wage. Many jobs try to pay minimum wage as a way of maximizing their profits, however in doing so they make it so many of their employees need to get more than one job in order to be able to survive on their meager earnings. It makes it so that many people do not enjoy life or what they do because they are constantly having to work and are always tired as a result. It is unfair for the capitalists in society to take advantage of the growing labor pools and treat their employees as replaceable things there to do the bidding of the company until they screw up, then they are fired and someone new is brought in to take the same position for the same money, or maybe even less.
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It is kind of ironic how the process is set up, and mindset that coincides with it. Capitalists want their companies to be the best and strive to the utmost success. And they clearly recognize and appreciate the idea of rewards and benefits, because of their generous bonuses for themselves, yet they are so hesitant to help out their employees in the same way. They expect so much out of them, but give them so little. Or is it the other way around? Do they not care if their employees shell out their full potential because they are seen as disposable? If that is the case, then what is to stop an employee from half-assing their job? They realize even if they put forth a world of effort, the only (if any) recognition they are going to get is a pat on the back. And a pat on the back doesn't necessarily put more food on the table or more money in their pockets.
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