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Yes, that is what they do.
If you start a business, will you do it for profit?
if you're really clever you'll do it with profit sharing built in and create a loyal team that eliminates constant training and rehiring of people who just want a paycheck...higher wages get you more talent...more talent makes you more productive an efficient...you stay in biz longer and have consistant success...not a roller coaster of cost cutting greed with no long term concerns
 
I know everyone is waiting for an update, so here it is. It seems she teaches Earth Science, still don't know what field her PhD is in.
Her students rate her highly, because she is "beyond easy". No homework, no projects, she tells you what will be on the test, and if you still fail the test, there is extra credit you can get to make up for it. They also say she's very passionate about the subject matter.

barfo
 
Businesses deserve to make a fair profit, their employees deserve fair wages to live on. Currently here in America wages are being held too low for many Americans to thrive... along with the businesses they work for, which is leading to more and more poverty.

It seems to me that Americans should thrive, along with the businesses they work for. American businesses are thriving right now, Americans are not. America has the largest economy in the world, it can afford to pay fair, living wages to American workers.

Do you know how this happens? It is technique that replaced slavery. Much easier to manage.

Well I will fill you in a little anyway.

As the slave trade was declared illegal by the major power of the day in 1803 I think, labor got a little more difficult to obtain. If my history servers me correctly, Jefferson signed the a treaty with the Great Britian as the result, in support of this ban on the slave trade. The first treaty the US ever entered, but I might be in error. Even though Slavery was still legal in the US, labor became in short supply, but as always a way is found. Indentured Servitude became a way to fill the labor need, all it had already been widely used in the North. Hardly different than slavery while the end date was a future date. This carried on for years up into the 20th century, filling the needs in the US for cheap labor. But after WWII and the world began to work it's way out of poverty, with all the US aid, fewer and fewer people were willing to become indentured just to get to the US. Probably around the 1950s and 1960s, the workers in the US held their highest position in society in wages relative to the economy of the day and the value of the dollar.

Then some bright soul pointed out that immigrants wanted to come to the US as free men and women not indentured servants. Walla! a new immigration policy was born. Then we got H1 visa programs to get more technical help. Hell the want adds in the paper
for talented people were endless in the 60 -70s. I remember Bill Gates personal addressing house or Senate committees, begging them to allow more visas for engineers and programmers so he could build his wonderful systems. He just couldn't do it with the US work force. He succeeded and the salaries of Engineers and programmers dropped. The want adds in the newspapers disappeared. Well done Bill! Others learned the lessons Including the Democrats. The newbies vote Democrat!!!!

Well hell why wait for visas" Just come, nobody knows the difference! And the Democrats and the people that want a worker are fine with the help. Employers have no need to raise the wages, when they come. Of course congress might raise the wage from time to time to attract the vote of the those that care. But the fact is, the minimum wage is not needed when labor is in short supply. Right now with unemployment very low, employer are raising their job offer price and still find it hard to fill some jobs. If you can't make a profit with the wages you must pay, then perhaps that job does need to be done somewhere else. But Government should not be making that decision unknowingly via the minimum wage being set too high.

Wages will follow supply, it is the natural order, employers will hire the best they can get for the least price. Congress should not raise the wage beyond a profitable level for the least profitable business.
 
I know everyone is waiting for an update, so here it is. It seems she teaches Earth Science, still don't know what field her PhD is in.
Her students rate her highly, because she is "beyond easy". No homework, no projects, she tells you what will be on the test, and if you still fail the test, there is extra credit you can get to make up for it. They also say she's very passionate about the subject matter.

barfo
I must be in the running.
I'm beyond easy and you can ask all the young ladies I've dated.
I give out no homework and assign no projects. It might be different if I had any students.
I don't need to tell you what's on my tests because I have no tests.
You can always earn extra credit from me on my couch. (This applies to females only. Men can suck an egg).
I have a PhD (positively homeschooled degree).
As a bonus I can assure you that I'm quite a sight in my swim suit. It'll really blow your mind.
 
Indentured Servitude became a way to fill the labor need, all it had already been widely used in the North. Hardly different than slavery while the end date was a future date. This carried on for years up into the 20th century, filling the needs in the US for cheap labor. But after WWII and the world began to work it's way out of poverty, with all the US aid, fewer and fewer people were willing to become indentured just to get to the US.

Indentured servitude was made illegal by the 13th amendment in 1865.

barfo
 
America needs a raise because you young nerds need to keep paying into my social security checks!

Part of my SS check comes from the fact that years that I served were covered by a law that mandated we be granted credit for full maximum credit paid for those years. As I understand it, this was to make up for paying damn near nothing to Saliors in that day.
Sort of a deferred payment system.

Not exactly a valid Representative system in my way of thinking. Some dude in Congress about 70 years ago, saddled the youngsters of today with a debt burden where they had no say. Did not get to vote yeah or nay on granting these guys the authority.
 
Indentured servitude was made illegal by the 13th amendment in 1865.

barfo

Of course it did.

My own grandfather brought three Stone Masons over from Scotland, paid their way and sponsored them with a job in the 1920s.

The gang of them did the rock work all over Clackamas county. A big project you can see on the old Highway 99 around the Willamette falls. Two years ago I discovered some in Cathlamet WA too. The local historian there was delighted to hear about who did the stone work.
 
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/per...y-in-america-has-become/ar-AABOnO4?li=BBnb7Kz

One brutal sentence sums up the dismal state of wealth disparity in the US.


"The bottom half of Americans combined have a negative net worth," Ben Steverman wrote in a recent Bloomberg article.

This statement is based on the research of economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, who study wealth inequality. Zucman is a "wealth detective" who spends hours combing through spreadsheets of tax tables, macroeconomic datasets, and international money flow calculations to find the secret money stashes of the world's richest people.

Saez and Zucman's research on wealth inequality also found that 20% of American wealth is controlled by the top 0.1% of taxpayers - or about 170,000 families. The top 1% control about 39% of the country's wealth, and the bottom 90% hold only 26%, despite years of economic growth in the US overall.

"The pie has not become bigger" in the US, Zucman told Bloomberg. "It's just that a bigger slice is going to the top."
 
Part of my SS check comes from the fact that years that I served were covered by a law that mandated we be granted credit for full maximum credit paid for those years. As I understand it, this was to make up for paying damn near nothing to Saliors in that day.
Sort of a deferred payment system.

Not exactly a valid Representative system in my way of thinking. Some dude in Congress about 70 years ago, saddled the youngsters of today with a debt burden where they had no say. Did not get to vote yeah or nay on granting these guys the authority.

Your SS check should be a wage that exceeds your basic needs. We also know that SS has no effect on the debt and deficit but righties will tell that lie till the cows come home.
 
Gentrification keeps me locked in. Must be nice that your rent can't go up too high. I have to live in fucking Milwaukie... GTFO...

3% every year. My place is small though, like 490 square feet, but I make the most of it.
 
3% every year. My place is small though, like 490 square feet, but I make the most of it.

Didn't you recently get engaged to a farm animal of some sort? At 490 sf, I think you run the risk of PETA being on your case.

barfo
 
My son's house bought 2 years ago in Eugene is already worth 150k more than he paid....it is insane ….I bought my place just in time in Oregon.

Sadly, wages aren't keeping up with living costs. Things are so fucked right now. I mean, I'm good, but like everyone else.

People need to learn to live super cheaply.
 
Gentrification keeps me locked in. Must be nice that your rent can't go up too high. I have to live in fucking Milwaukie... GTFO...
Cheer up, it could be worse. Move over here, the house next door to me was for sale and just recently sold. There are others starting at $500,000.00 and up.
I lived in a decent lower middle class neighborhood in Aloha where houses were quite a bit cheaper although some parts are not so desirable. There are nice homes in Beaverton for half that price. Depends on how much you have to spend.
 
Sadly, wages aren't keeping up with living costs. Things are so fucked right now. I mean, I'm good, but like everyone else.

Whaaat? I thought the Trump economy was, like, super awesome???

barfo
 
Whaaat? I thought the Trump economy was, like, super awesome???

barfo

never said it was.

Its just as fucked as the Obama economy.

Which is just as fucked as the Bush economy.

All because we didn't let it burn down. Then made it worse by printing money and buying bonds.

QE and FED Rates near zero.

We have always been fucked, just kicking the can down the road.
 
Ha!
I built a house in West Linn back when I worked in Portland. Did it with a State GI construction loan. 18K

The thing is worth 1.2 million now. Crap! I would hate to pay that tax bill.
 
hoard crypto and gold.

stay away from Facebook's coin.
 
All because we didn't let it burn down.

I thought electing Trump was burning it down?

If only he hadn't turned out so establishment.

Who will rid us of this meddlesome country?

barfo
 
I thought electing Trump was burning it down?

If only he hadn't turned out so establishment.

Who will rid us of this meddlesome country?

barfo

He burnt down the stupid libs down a notch.
 
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