Tuchodi wants you to put a mask on to protect her health
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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.
The magic printing press being government bailouts? For them to reinvest in stock buybacks?
Yeah you're right it wouldn't be fair if some people got more than others.
The bailouts kept businesses afloat for an economic crisis the government created. No one got rich on them. We used programs to pay the staff and overhead. Otherwise they would have been unemployed. If you think that money could have been used to give raises, when we had a gigantic hole blown out of our revenue due to the covid policies, you are ignorant of reality and prone to commiunomic (I coined that!) thinking, which is why every communist economy is good at only 2 things: creating poverty and low productivity. Even with that help from the government most businesses could barely pay their employees what they were already earning.
And in any case, we are all suffering the consequences of the government's magic printing press in the form of runaway inflation, which is the consequence of your ideology. If a burger flipper got paid 30 dollars an hour, everyone else's wages would go up and so would prices. The burger flipper would be no better off than before because his 30 dollars would then have the buying power of what his earlier minimum wage salary could buy.