What should the minimum wage be?

[Callinectes]

Easy answer. How much will a wealthy foreigner pay to have his lawn mowed?

Any decent rightie will tell you, the answer is supply and demand. Somebody will do it for about 2 bucks an hour. Might steal all your guns and rape your daughter and pack it all away in your pickup truck but what the hell. It's the American way!

Yeah, I hate it when that happens, and this is the forth time this week!...Seriously dude, where do you get your screwball ideas about America? Have you ever been here? Maybe you were dropped on your head by an American minimum wage baby sitter? Despite what our current regime is attempting to do to the country, we still manage to do a pretty good job of feeding, clothing and sheltering 315 million people, not to mention providing work for about 85% of ourselves. We certainly don't need an outsider telling us our country sucks, we have a bunch of "progressive" politicians for that.

 

[/MSG/]

Actually we should pass a ban on all good from countries allowing slave labor, or wage slavery conditions. Call it the human decency protection act.

Then you wouldn't be typing that sentence out you retard.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Then you wouldn't be typing that sentence out you retard.

Of course I would, double-retard.

 

[/MSG/]

Of course I would, double-retard.

On what? Your computer is made with parts from "slave labor" countries and materials only found in other "slave labor " countries.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

On what? Your computer is made with parts from "slave labor" countries and materials only found in other "slave labor " countries.

So it would just be made somewhere else, by free workers. Human slavery is not the only path forward. Your belief that it is the only way forward is odious.

 

[/MSG/]

So it would just be made somewhere else, by free workers. Human slavery is not the only path forward. Your belief that it is the only way forward is odious.

Like where? Name a place.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Like where? Name a place.

Anyplace.

 

[NOVA]

You determine your own min. wage....by accepting a job.

Every self employed person sets their min. wage every time they give a prospective client an estimate....if its low enough, they usually get the job....

 

[/MSG/]

Anyplace.

Seriously, you can't name a single country?

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Seriously, you can't name a single country?

Can you? Name one. You could make stuff there.

 

[Boris The Animal]

Can you? Name one. You could make stuff there.

Yeah, and pay $4,000 for a laptop rather than $400, dumbass!!

 

[I'm Watermark]

Yeah, and pay $4,000 for a laptop rather than $400, dumbass!!

[Citation needed]

 

[Boris The Animal]

Oh please. With all of the added labor costs that US manufacturers have to incur, they have to jack up prices. it's all about profit and loss.

 

[I'm Watermark]

Oh please. With all of the added labor costs that US manufacturers have to incur, they have to jack up prices. it's all about profit and loss.

You're ignoring the basic psychology and economics of business. A few things:

a.) workers are currently far more productive than they're paid for, and this will remain true even in the face of the DNC's most radical wage policy.
b.) products currently selling at $400 won't sell at $4,000. People just won't buy them, so a firm would never set the price that high. Instead, they'd cope with increased labor costs by allocating resources from things like executive pay.
c.) even if liberal economics result in mass offshoring and loss of jobs, things won't be so bad. Because if this takes place, the US will be eliminated as a consumer nation, which will force workers and the government to begin collectivized domestic production. If the government doesn't act, however, there'll probably be violence, with worker uprisings, confrontations with police, another phase of Occupy, and leftist groups using the anger to increase their membership.

 

[/MSG/]

You're ignoring the basic psychology and economics of business. A few things:

a.) workers are currently far more productive than they're paid for, and this will remain true even in the face of the DNC's most radical wage policy.
b.) products currently selling at $400 won't sell at $4,000. People just won't buy them, so a firm would never set the price that high. Instead, they'd cope with increased labor costs by allocating resources from things like executive pay.
c.) even if liberal economics result in mass offshoring and loss of jobs, things won't be so bad. Because if this takes place, the US will be eliminated as a consumer nation, which will force workers and the government to begin collectivized domestic production. If the government doesn't act, however, there'll probably be violence, with worker uprisings, confrontations with police, another phase of Occupy, and leftist groups using the anger to increase their membership.

OR D.) They'll automate the process, giving jobs to people who were never in desperate want of them to begin with.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Like where? Name a place.

Detroit?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Yeah, and pay $4,000 for a laptop rather than $400, dumbass!!

Not to go all Randian on ya'll but you seriously underestimate the productive ability of American workers.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Oh please. With all of the added labor costs that US manufacturers have to incur, they have to jack up prices. it's all about profit and loss.

You don't think we can do it?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

OR D.) They'll automate the process, giving jobs to people who were never in desperate want of them to begin with.

Amen cuz.

 

[007]

Minimum wage?
The lowest amount you are prepared to accept in remuneration negotiations prior to accepting a job offer.
That's pretty much it.