Okay. Regarding the pay increase for the workers . Call me an insensitive, uncaring, capitalist Pig. It won't matter because I'm not going to debate things. I don't plan to answer this topic again. And the moderators might well remove this post. If so. That is fine with me. I don't want to violate their rules.
But I just wanted to put the idea out there that I thought people got paid what they were worth. It's nice to care about people but when you pay people more than they're worth what you're actually doing is giving them charity. How do you define what people are worth? That is difficult. People as people are worth a lot. People as workers are something else. Generally workers get paid what it costs to replace them. This cost to replace them includes whatever factors it requires to get a person to do the same job. That could include training, certification, experience, relocation, collective bargaining agreements, bonuses for specific hours, for danger, or physical or mental effort. It could include many things. But when you say give people a 'living wage' I just want to make it clear that what you are saying is give people charity, if it is more than they are worth for the job that they do. If it is such a poor, undesirable job and wage, then they are always welcome, in this country, to go get a job somewhere else that might be more suited to their own personal requirements.
Okay, I'm done, and I'm sure some people will say that I have no right to say this because I just don't understand or care, but again, before you accuse me of something that is not true, you should be aware that I literally work for free, as a voluntary thing, for people many times a month. And I literally give away thousands of dollars a week on a regular basis to other people, especially people who dont have money, and especially people who don't even know I'm doing it, with no expectation of payment or reimbursement coming back to me, for what I gave them. So, I do not think I am insensitive.
