Again this is just your opinion and subjective perspective. $600 goes a long way in the rural areas of US, rent as low as $200 per month. Some people could live very well on $600 a month. So what you’re indicating here is that your subjective lifestyle is more expensive than $600. That doesn’t mean it should be a standard for everybody.
I’m pro individual-responsibility. If people can’t get their lives together then that’s their fault. Your “uplifting” them is neither asked for, wanted, or noble. When you use them as pawns to your political games then it’s ignoble, disgraceful. You can’t merely pretend to “want to help” others. You have to actually do it or you receive no credence from these socialist views you espouse.
If you are against women working then you should become anti-feminist and preach traditional gender values, conservative values. Much of the reason things have become so bad, in your own words, is because of the ‘feminist’, socialist, and other liberal-leftist movements. If conservative values remained then women would be able to stay at home, and men would receive 2x the pay they currently get. This would cause economic downturn, but there is your real “socialist versus capitalist” argument.
Why aren’t you a conservative, if you want men to work and women to stay home, mother, and raise children?
Economic growth occurs because people want to work, to afford a living. People have a demand for revenue, paychecks, $30 per hour wages. All of this drives the economy. Employers are the Supply. Employers supply jobs, to which menial labor works. You cannot stop the economy without causing more poverty, starvation, ruin.
Correct.
It’s none of your business, or anybody’s, to interfere with business dealings. However today there is excessive regulation, government intervention, and socialism (as you espouse). You don’t realize that you and your kind have already won, and, caused damage to society. You are acting as the government representative, to force employers to pay certain wages.
Isn’t your position most unjust and unfair?
This is fallacious rationale.
If workers were paid pennies then they would not afford a room to rent. If they had no room to rent then they wouldn’t work at the job long. So it’s in the employer’s interest to pay wages such that workers can continue to work. And they have paid such wages. And they will continue to do so. Smarter workers are ones who are willing to quit, and join a competitor’s factory or business, for higher wages. Employers must compete against each other to attract and retain the best workers. Otherwise a company will have low paid, unskilled, and unreliable workers. They will pay for this cost. So it’s not worth it.
I just think you don’t really care about common people and you’re advocating more for yourself and/or the community directly around you. Around the states and world, people do live on little or nothing, and many are complacent or fine with it. There is no need for “a better world” scenario where “everybody is happy” as-if happiness revolves around money, when it doesn’t.
The bottom-line is that you are pro-third-party intervention, pro-government, pro-socialist. You are against business dealings between two people. If it’s unfair, paying pennies, or whatever, then it’s still none of your business. Rather you presume that intervention is automatically good or righteous, that it “should” be. Furthermore your claims about minimum wage do not presume the conclusions that you claim, that “people would be happier”, “society would be better”, or economic feasibility. In fact you mentioned that you want to see the economy plummet. So that is also presumed within your intentions for a $30 minimum wage.
Not only is it unrealistic but your idealism is flawed as well. It won’t necessarily “help” anybody but yourself. And once inflation would kick in, and it would, then it wouldn’t necessarily help poor or middle class people either. All it would do is create economic stagnancy and class immobility. People would not be able to move from poor to middle class, or middle class to rich. The US is based on high class mobility. A poor person can become rich, and rich can become poor. However your socialistic mentality has taken power and even this is barely true today.
Socialism needs repealed, not advanced.