While i agree that in some cases there are fat cat bosses creaming off huge profits, in many cases the worker does get a fair and decent wage but it is the state and their ever increasing taxes which is the problem. The worker works voluntarily at his job and can move on at any time but he is forced by the state to pay taxes.
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Thanks for stopping by. Why do you think workers work voluntarily? I posit that the threat of losing one's home constitutes a requirement to work. The u.s. does not guarantee employment, nor provide a basic income. For a very few lucky individuals (mainly those fat cats you mentioned and their offspring) working may be a choice, but for most of us, our livelihoods depend upon our employment.
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If he does not like the terms of his employment, the worker is free to leave and sell his labour elsewhere or he is free to start his own enterprise. If not for the huge taxes imposed by the state, we would likely live very well on what we earn.
And if there are no purchasers for his labor willing to pay him a living wage?
Also, I don't know anyone who doesn't get more value from the taxes they pay than they pay in taxes who is struggling. I'd prefer graduated income taxes to flat sales and property tax, but even with those, this is true.
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This is not a hypothetical. Do you think the millions who are the working poor are merely working for less than a living wage because they haven't exercised their option to find better conditions?
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You are vilifying employers as thieving wages from workers and I am saying that employers provide jobs and must make a profit or the business will fail. If the worker does not like the conditions of his employment he is free to go elsewhere or to build is own business. I see the state as the thief and taxation as the theft.
I am vilifying billion dollar corporations. I'm not sure if you're defending a particular employer or capitalism in general. I don't mean the small business owners who barely make enough to consider their profits a living wage. If you mean, for example, my mom when she owned a bookstore, she paid herself a wage for managing that was not much more than she paid her employees.
But when Amazon makes billions and subjects its workers to unsafe conditions and poverty wages... suggesting they can all just quit if they don't like it is naive at best.
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I believe I covered the likes of Amazon when I said that in some cases there are fat cat bosses creaming off huge profits,
I couldn't tell what you meant, since the vast majority of wealth is controlled by these fat cats, but you seemed to think they were a blip compared to taxes.
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I was going to write a long reply about how the employer cannot thieve from the worker what the worker gives voluntarily, by agreement, as opposed to the state who demand taxes under pain of punishment, but I won't. I'll wish you a peaceful Christmas and say, long live differing viewpoints and our ability to argue them respectfully.