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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 2926383" data-attributes="member: 44954">I wouldn&#039;t call standing up for yourself and demanding a living wage &quot;bitching&quot; or &quot;whining&quot;. What I will say is that I think using the government to achieve that is a lost cause.&nbsp; If these people want better treatment in the workplace they should unionize. This of course leads the conversation to the Republican war on workers and unions, but that&#039;s another discussion.When it comes to having to lay people off and raise prices, I say that&#039;s fine with me.&nbsp; Pay a living wage and let the chips fall where they will.&nbsp; If it means you need higher productivity and less workers, so be it.&nbsp; If it means you need to raise prices, so be it.A government instituted minimum wage has positives and negatives.&nbsp; In it&#039;s current form, seems to me that all it does is keep wages artificially low, and with that comes artificially low prices.&nbsp; There&#039;s a reason people don&#039;t want to raise the minimum wage and you hear this argument every time the debate comes up..... they want the crap they buy to be cheap.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t matter to them who has to be underpaid to produce their cheap crap, so long as it&#039;s cheap..... then they&#039;ll bitch about welfare and food stamps..... smh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 2926383, member: 44954"] I wouldn't call standing up for yourself and demanding a living wage "bitching" or "whining". What I will say is that I think using the government to achieve that is a lost cause. If these people want better treatment in the workplace they should unionize. This of course leads the conversation to the Republican war on workers and unions, but that's another discussion. When it comes to having to lay people off and raise prices, I say that's fine with me. Pay a living wage and let the chips fall where they will. If it means you need higher productivity and less workers, so be it. If it means you need to raise prices, so be it. A government instituted minimum wage has positives and negatives. In it's current form, seems to me that all it does is keep wages artificially low, and with that comes artificially low prices. There's a reason people don't want to raise the minimum wage and you hear this argument every time the debate comes up..... they want the crap they buy to be cheap. Doesn't matter to them who has to be underpaid to produce their cheap crap, so long as it's cheap..... then they'll bitch about welfare and food stamps..... smh. [/QUOTE]

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