Tuchodi wants you to put a mask on to protect her health
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What if my income did increase? Do you think it magically increases by sprinkling some unicorn dust. It can only increase based on the profits of the company and I am responsible for its success or failure, with my team. If it did increase it would be because it could afford it.
Do you think the guy who sweeps the floor or flips a burger provides the same value of service or skill as a trained professional at the top of his field? This is the delusion at the heart of you mah exploitation argument.
I pay people what they are worth based on the job market and based on the skills they provide. Not that I am in the burger business, but if you think that burger flippers or the people that add toppings to your subway sandwich should be getting paid enough to afford a home in the suburbs or a nice condo in downtown, for the labour that they sell in exchange for wages, you really have no idea of how an economy works. Just like you would not pay the same for a 1994 rust bucket car as a new luxury car, you do not pay unskilled labour the same as skilled labour.
But actually it if makes you feel better, I do not run an unskilled workforce. Our business was impacted by covid so we all took a paycut, including me, so no one got laid off. So take your delusional marxism and go fuck yourself.
https://medium.com/thing-a-day/unskilled-labor-is-a-myth-used-to-justify-poverty-wages-6cb1208c5f8e
Sorry I took a while to get back to your comment. I was busy actually doing things.
If you think unskilled labour does not exist, you are delusional. There are degrees of skill, with some being the kind of skill that anyone can do and others that require extensive training and/or innate ability)
A person who mops floors is not doing a job requiring the same skill as someone who is a mechanic or a software engineer. A barrista that fills your coffee cup from an automated coffee maker is not employing the same skills as a bricklayer or a plumber.
If it offends you to call them unskilled labor - because even these jobs require some skill, think of them as less skilled labor. There is no moral, financial or economic justification for paying the less skilled floor mopper, the barrista the same as the plumber, mechanic, engineer, etc.
All are trading their labour for wages or other compensation, but the value of what they have to sell depends on the marketplace. When what you have to sell is your ability to move a mop back and forth or to pour coffee, your less skilled labour is worth considerably less than someone who can do what others cannot, be it fix a car engine (I'll give you that one, Tuchodi), or design a bridge.
In fact it would be grossly unfair and a recipe for disaster to pay everyone the same. If you paid the floor mopper the same as the person who builds bridges, what incentive would there ever be for someone to go through years of schooling to learn a specialized important skill. If they were rewarded the same as someone who does things of lesser worth, ultimately we would all sink to the lowest common denominator.
People like you, who think that working is slavery and boot licking, are the products of an affluent society that allows lazy loaf abouts to complain about work they do not do themselves.
"people I don't respect personally deserve poverty wages"
People who chose not to acquire skills, or have not yet acquired them, or are lazy do not deserve to be rewarded as much as those who have skills or are harder workers. There, I fixed that for you, commie.
People like you have no clue how an economy works or what it takes to run a business. You think that there is a magic printing press in the back office where I can just pay an unskilled worker a gazillion dollars an hour, and you think that if I did that, it would not have a demoralizing and disincentivizing effect on those who work harder or have more skills, doing more important jobs.