| > would we have a world without waitresses, warehouse workers, low wage jobs? The latter is impossible to answer since "low wage" is relative, much like if everyone had millions of $ for every $ they owned, the currency would simply devalue. That said, in a nation full of skilled, competent workers, the nation would be more productive overall (more "fruits" to go around), and more competitive abroad - so it's not a zero-sum game in that sense. > waitresses, warehouse workers I couldn't care less if waitressing disappeared, I prefer self-serve places; what value is lost? If no-one wanted to be paid low wages to work in warehouses, either a) warehouse worker wages would go up, or b) an alternative solution would be found, or c) the business is no longer viable and collapses. > can be blackmailed into doing the bad jobs and even the people with good jobs probably wouldn't work if they weren't paid. In that sense are they blackmailed too? > If nobody could be forced to take shitty jobs, how would most of the current industries exist? By paying more for those jobs, or replacing them.
Alternatively, by those industries not existing. Do you think most industry cannot exist but for the subsidy of paying low wage Can you give me an example of a healthy industry were the most critical workers are low paid? |