Jesus never accepted it and moved on. So if you're coming at this from Christianity, I think you'll find your model for life..your very Lord...did not embrace the tenents of capitalism at the expense of the human beings he loved enough to suffer for.
Right there with ya, buddy. Neither one wants to address the two issues I think are most important (gutting the income tax and publicly funded elections), much less the one that I think would have the most positive impact on the world (ending prohibition).
Is the wage really driven by pure capitalism - supply and demand? I don't think so. People use media to form or support their own views. But who controll the media? Those big companies. We were all told that executives deserve the insane big bucks, while they are the visionaries, but those average Joes don't even deserve a higher minimum wage because their jobs are easily replacable. I don't buy that, not at all. The system is far more important than one person. No one is irreplacable. If your organization relies solely on one person, it is in real trouble. Same thing applies to a country. Like I said, if we look around, we have far more middle management staff than janitors. Yes, those managers are performing some important tasks, but I hardly see those jobs so special that no one else can get it done. When I was in Europe, I never saw resumes similar to the North America version, in which almost everyone claims to be great and excellent and "unique" match for the position. I guess that's just common practice and no one ever takes it literally. But by saying that, it does cause the problem, one just values him/herself too high. The tendency will just be: I am unique and important so I deserve this high pay, those minimum wage workers, what do they know? To think of a raise? Well, just take it or leave it. I am in IT industry, and getting well paid. But honestly, the prise is driven up too high, while most of the industry is hardly any "high-tech". Capitalism is driven by supply and demand, but it won't adjust to balance smoothly. It will definitely tip when the unbalance reaches absolute level. But the society can not afford that kind of "shocking effect". That's where democracy and humanity kick in. If you let capitalism dictates everything, you will just have those severe social problems like child labour and no insurance for workers etc. I am not sayiny that the government should regulate and force each company to pay janitors 20 bucks an hour. But look around, your janitors' wage is not what drives up the cost. As far as I know, layoff in many tech companies started from mid-level management, not the tech people, not the janitors. There should be a compromise somewhere to satisfy the needs.
