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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
This is exactly why I abhor everything with your philosophy.
Who are you to say how one may spend their time? If a person chooses to work for 3 dollars, allow them to. Who are you to prohibit them?
This is on par with GLBT/minority rights. I see no difference between the two. Basic human rights.
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Wow. I find that so incredibly ignorant. Go 'choose' to work for that wage - $120 a week and tell me how you're going to pay rent or buy food or raise a kid.
If those are the only jobs being offered, or the only jobs for which you are qualified, it is not a real choice, is it? Workers are people. Businesses had their chance at not having a minimum wage and fucked it up. People weren't working in sweatshops because they chose that over other labor, they did it because it was choosing that or dying. And sent their children to work in mills because it was that or dying. And when the child lost a hand to unsafe machinery there were no more choices. The employer hired a new one. When the woman spoke up and asked for breaks, better wages, or ventilation she was fired (and sometimes worse) and the employer hired a new one. People sent their children off in orphan trains or abandoned them in orphanages because it was that or death. People weren't making living wages back in the glory days of pre-minimum wage awesomeness.
It's been done. Employers have already proven that they can and will treat people as garbage, so now they might as well at least pay them a reasonable wage for it.
Abuse and exploitation are not 'choice' they're abuse and exploitation, period.
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