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Quote by: Cephus  Yes, if there is other work available. But if all employers in an area are paying the same paltry wages, there aren't a lot of options, are there? It's made worse by the concept of "company towns" where the company owns everything from the food to the stores to the roads and keeps you so deeply in debt that you have to keep working just to keep eating. That's probably not as much of a concern today, but back 100 years ago, many predatory companies did just that. |
I always have options, just as you do, and Jose Wage-Earner. I'd have even more options readily available to me without government regulation and licensing and taxes and fees and other barriers to creating my own livlihood that prevents me from utilizing some of the skills I have (e.g. hair stylist).
If you want to know what is keeping the poor unemployed and low-end wage earners from exercising other options than to work at low-paying jobs, it's not the lack of ability to accumulate capital that most socialists claim. It is government regulation. I see entrepreneurial startups from practically nothing all the time in parts of the world that don't have excessive government barriers set up to stop it. In the US, I can't cut hair and manicure nails, or brew and distribute beer, or make and sell bio-diesel fuel without permission from several levels of government.
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Quote by: Cephus They're not, but some would push their luck if given half a chance, which is why things are regulated the way they are today. That's also why monopolies are strictly regulated, because in the past, they were badly abused. |
Regulation is government is force. It doesn't matter whether it appeals to your sense of fairness or your blood lust or both. It is wrong.