The Economy

And yet we're still softening child labor laws all over the country in order to feed more cheap labor into the slaughterhouse and the sawmill.

Hmmm.

 

If only there was some way - in the richest nation on the planet - that we didn’t have to tie healthcare benefits to someone’s employment.

 

But don't higher labor costs created by labor shortages give employers more incentive to invest in labor saving capital equipment, raising the rate rate of productivity and

Medical costs have increased from 8.4% of GDP in 1979 to 18.4% so employer are paying a lot more for health insurance. But on the other hand the demise of virtually all fixed benefit pension plans has saved employers a lot of money.

 

Keep talking, commie.

 

You missed a penny.

 

We didn’t create the sun. But the sun quite obviously and quite often creates skin cancers. I think I’m glad we looked at cause and effect here. Our heat source that “God” created can cause cancer.

 

Somewhat agree. Probably more than a week. Ostensibly the CEO has education and experience, in most cases, that warrant a higher salary. My question is “reasonable profit”. Wasn’t there once a definition of capitalism that include the phrase reasonable profit?

 

Funny how CEO's that lead their company straight down the shitter still get paid their huge salary and generally get a fat golden parachute to boot.

 

Two-word response:

Raise salaries.

 

Well, we gotta do something for cheap labor. They won't let the brown people in any more.

 

In Matthew Desmond’s ‘Poverty, by America,’ the Culprit Is Us

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