Monday, January 09, 2012

Lowering the Lifeline

Because one segment evidently has the right to make another pay for their phone and internet, too. [Read]
Posted by David Codrea at 1/09/2012 02:21:00 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The current creep of redistribution is not good for society. However if we are not going to create incentives for good jobs somehow, its probably inevitable.

Unfortunately the combination of social comity and necessity that created the good job boom till about 1973 is gone for good.

Worse can't lower the wage or work conditions bar low enough for the rapacious multi-nationals satisfaction as no matter what you give them, they'll try for more, more, more. Given human limits, you can't just educate your way out either.

Somehow people need good jobs, not any jobs, low paying jobs lead to a poor society, but good ones for people of average smarts and no college degree.

Until some combination of carrot and stick is used to get them, the pressure for redistribution will grow.

In short, if you don't want socialism, everybody needs to pay good wages.

1/10/2012 3:11 AM
David Codrea said...

I make crappy wages and I don't want socialism. It's up to me to provide something that is valued--if this doesn't work out, I'm free to try something else that is valued more.

I saw a union destroy the factory providing prosperity to an entire town and more when I was a young foreman. They went out on strike. It took me two weeks to train office workers to do their jobs at comparable production and scrap rates. If all someone has put into their market value is a skill set that anyone else can pick up in two weeks, why do they deserve to have wages artificially inflated over value?

Competition and wages in this country are stifled by socialism, not elevated, and that includes a regulatory and lawsuit burden our foreign "competitors" are happy to see us assume on our own.

And the fact remains, destructive redistributionist policy has resulted in large segments of "entitlement"-dependents who are unemployable--not just because they haven't provided themselves any skills of value, but because they are actually a liability and danger to have around.

It's a major and abominable crime against humanity that has been--and continues to be perpetrated on the least advantaged among us, to the cynical advantage of their (and our) exploiters, and life, liberty and pursuit of happiness be damned.

1/10/2012 10:33 AM

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