And employers show concern with their hundreds of employees and actuallly negotiate with them since when?
When they can't find anyone to do the work for the wages offered.
This is why people learn skills, so they have something to offer in exchange for higher wages. If all a man has to offer is muscle, all he gets offered is low paying muscle jobs.
If the wages offered aren't enough, no one takes the job, the offered wage has to rise, or the job isn't done.
This isn't complicated and there's no mystery.
So it should be the fiat command of the rich elites? Give me a break.
You mean like the man expanding a landscaping business that needs more muscles on the job?
Is he a "rich elite"?
How about the corner store?
Are those people "rich elites"?
Most of the people in this country work for middle class business owners, not "rich elites". Maybe you need to hang up your class warfare pre-programmed stereotypes and discover who America is.
You're right, but the health and well being of a large population of U.S. citizens is a legitimate basis for it.
I'm right.
No "buts".
I don't deny that the individual needs to be responsible and plan financially to support a family, but if there was no minimum wage law there would not be enough or possibly any decent paying jobs for the average Joe.
Hang it up, no one with any sense is buying.
Yes I know what a job is. Someone works for someone else and is paid in an amount worthy of that work. I am not a socialist. I support capitalism and a relatively free market.
No. If you support a relatively free market, you don't support capitalism, you support government interference in indivdual freedom.
I do however believe in some regulations of that market.
Only to the extent that fraud is punished.
Minimum wage is one such regulation I think is necessary to prevent a workforce wide problem of unfair wages.
Can you explain who elected you to the Board of Arbitration of Wage Unfairness? Can you name any of the other BAWU commissioners? Who elected them?
If there is no regulation, companies will undervalue the labor, and other companies will see that they can charge less, so they will. It is a cycle.
And eventually, the workers say, that's a waste of my time, I'm worth more than that, and the wages find their correct (and hence fair) level.
Right now your insisting that the government intrude it's muscle and it's elitism to command wages to meet some arbitrary notion of "fairness". Which government loves to do, it's not their money.
Want to know who determines what's fair? The worker and the employer. When they agree on a wage, that's fair. If they don't agree on a wage, there's no work done, and hence no worker, and with no worker, there's no employer. There's just people looking for jobs and people looking for people to fill jobs.
No they don't. If they can't pay their workers decently and afford their cell phones they should go without cell phones.
So, in your view, some people should be denied their earnings, and some other people should be allowed to take unearned money. And when this happens, you call it "fair".