Much like with the anger aimed at GMO's which I sincerely believe to be more about Monsanto making large profits off of the GMO's not the perceived dangers of the GMO's themselves this is about hatred of profitable companies. If GMO's were open source and Monsanto weren't making so much money I don't think people would care about them just like if the only restaurants were family owned dinners you wouldn't hear the outrage at the wages fry cooks receive.
This is the real issue here, if the minimum wage were to be increased to 15 dollars an hour you would see economic collapse. Family owned dinners and cafe's couldn't afford to pay 30,000 dollars a year to their full time employees and stay in business. Increasing the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour would lead to record inflation and job loss. The cost of the increase in wages would be passed on to the consumers much like what has happened in Australia where the minimum wage is over 20 dollars an hour.
Consumer prices are 50 percent higher in Australia than they are in the United States. This is the outcome of an increased minimum wage. The reason wages are low is about supply and demand. We have larger supply of workers than jobs. This, not greed, is why wages are low. If you force employers who are already employing more workers than they need to function efficiently than you will simply hasten the downsizing of the workforce and the rate at which human workers are replaced by machinery.
It comes back to population size. At one point in time we needed a large workforce to plow land. At another point we needed a large workforce to build goods then we needed a work force to sell those goods. Now the land is plowed by a one worker in a large piece of Caterpillar machinery
the population will eventually decrease and the workforce will level out and wages will go up.
No longer is wealth created through arduous labor. It is now created through providing travel and entertainment. This is a golden time to be alive because the costs of leisure have gone down. What creates the most wealth in the United States today you might ask? The NFL not only do the players receive lots of money but they spend it on luxury items such as Ruby's, Lexus', Porsches and Mercedes. They also spend money things other than strippers. The sole reason why cable companies and the Networks haven't had to cut their workforces drastically is the amount of money generated by NFL television contracts. These jobs will vanish once the NFL goes to a subscription based streaming service that doesn't require Direct TV. Bars make up for the down summer months the minute the NFL kicks off. Included in this the merchandise and vendors in the stadiums. This is the new economy, It is based on leisure activities and as the population decreases everyone will have a better life.
Of course it really does matter who is having children and who is not. For if the only people have children are those that have four of them when their only source of supporting their family is a retail job than the future of this planet is extremely bleak
and the manufacturing is done by these awesome dudes
As for the selling of products that is now done in this manner. Every time you order a product online you are eliminating retail jobs in the same manner in which the occupation of travel agent is now only seen in movies from the 80s and in the museum of Natural History thanks in part to the Roaming Gnome and Travelocity. This lowers the price to the consumer and gives the consumer more freedom. These innovations improve the quality of life and have created a leisure economy.
As more and more people choose to be childless
No longer is wealth created through arduous labor. It is now created through providing travel and entertainment. This is a golden time to be alive because the costs of leisure have gone down. What creates the most wealth in the United States today you might ask? The NFL not only do the players receive lots of money but they spend it on luxury items such as Ruby's, Lexus', Porsches and Mercedes. They also spend money things other than strippers. The sole reason why cable companies and the Networks haven't had to cut their workforces drastically is the amount of money generated by NFL television contracts. These jobs will vanish once the NFL goes to a subscription based streaming service that doesn't require Direct TV. Bars make up for the down summer months the minute the NFL kicks off. Included in this the merchandise and vendors in the stadiums. This is the new economy, It is based on leisure activities and as the population decreases everyone will have a better life.
Of course it really does matter who is having children and who is not. For if the only people have children are those that have four of them when their only source of supporting their family is a retail job than the future of this planet is extremely bleak
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