Re: FWD: Unpaid?

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM>]

Andrew Plato <aplato -at- EASYSTREET -dot- COM> wrote:

>This is capitalism, friends [snip]....The only person screwing you is you.  If
>you accept $10.00 an hour - you just screwed yourself. Companies will get as
>much out of people as they can for the least they can pay.  This is not some
>evil plot, it is the way a for-profit company is run.

Maybe it's because, philosophically, I'm not a capitalist at all, but
I'd
like to point out that, if too many people take $10 an hour jobs, or
justify
companies playing so little, then, "the only person screwing you" won't
be you.
Low paying jobs should concern everyone.

Nor can a bottom line company complain if it is outed.

>Lastly, if you have a lot of fussy requirements to work, then you better get
>used to making less money.

True enough. But decent treatment isn't "fussy."

Among other things, it makes sense for a company, because it usually
means that
employees are more willing to work harder, and show more loyalty. In the
long
run, morality and business sense can be synonymous, but to combine them
takes a little more imagination than following the bottom line.

I will now lead the choir in a chorus of "Solidarity Forever," followed
by
Hymn 471, "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill." :-)

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