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by geggam 2839 days ago
If you have a business in a country and cannot afford to pay your workers high enough wages that they can afford to live without society subsidizing them. Then you cannot afford to run your business and are stealing money from the society you are in.

This concept that people are welfare bums when they are working is incorrect. Their employers are the welfare bums.

If you want to use the infrastructure to run a business pay your people enough to live.

1 comments

It isn't the businesses fault that people don't have high margin skills. There effort should be on improving workforce skill and productive. Not villianising those who employ them.
You are assuming they don’t have the skills and that hiring is a perfect, fair process. This is not so.

There is clear evidence that even something as simple as being black might prevent someone being rejected over a less skilled white applicant.

It is entirely the business's fault that they are not paying their workers enough to live on.