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Moneymoney posted...

Hourly pay is based on what you can provide

If, as a business owner, you're looking to buy a machine to do a task, but the machine costs more to maintain than you would be able to make by running it, do you demand that the machine be maintained at a loss so you can operate it at a profit? Or do you accept that you need to design your tasks more economically so you either turn a greater profit by using the machine or don't need it?

The cost of living is the cost of having a human do a job. If you can't afford to pay for an employee's cost of living, then you can't afford to hire them. If an employee's cost of living is greater than the income they will generate for you, then you have failed as a business and need the government to bail you out by paying your employees the rest of the salary you owe them. It's that simple, as tempting as it is to hide behind hideously outdated minimum wage laws and pretend you're doing well enough.
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