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You are paid what you are worth, (most of the time.)

Let me count the ways:
1. You are NOT entitled to a job. You have to EARN the job. That means a job has to be open, you have to have the skills to perform that job and you have to be the best candidate for that job.
2. You are NOT entitled to that bullshit "living wage" which only exists in unicorn dwelling unemployed diploma mill grads. You live on what you make. If you want more, you have to work harder and smarter for more.
3. You are NOT entitled to make money based on how hard you work. You could slave in the sun, day after day, making mud pies. You wouldn't be worth a cent. PERIOD.
4. Your pay is based on you reaching a VOLUNTARY agreement with an employer. He wants you to work for free, or a dollar a day. You want to work for $100 a minute, with six months vacation and five Rolls Royces for a car allowance. Your pay is where you and the employer meet somewhere in the middle.
5. The best example of this in the real world is a hospital. A heart surgeon makes more money than the janitor. That's because the heart surgeon's skill is more valuable than that of a janitor.
6. The ONLY time you are paid more than you are worth is a situation created by minimum wage. (Or if you are on WELFARE.) If you are a total bozo, the state has mandated that you not be paid what you are worth, if it is a penny an hour, but rather a minimum amount. Of course, those who are REALLY stupid and incompetent are never hired if their skills are worth less than the minimum wage.
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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
[quote]You are NOT entitled to a job. You have to EARN the job. That means a job has to be open, you have to have the skills to perform that job and you have to be the best candidate for that job.[/quote]

...and that's why undocumented immigrants don't steal jobs. You can't steal a job from someone if they were never hired in the first place. Thanks for playing.
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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Reason10 A labour law that places restriction on the freedom to hire and work where you want and clogs up the mechanisms of the free market . . all sounds a bit socialist to me! 😅
MethDozer · M
@SunshineGirl sounds sorta like, like. UNIONIZATION in based non right to work states
MethDozer · M
@Reason10 95% of these people who hire them ARE Republicans. So doubt it will ever happen. Lip service is all it is.


Besides aren't you a Libertarian?
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Reason10 · 61-69, M
@MethDozer @MethDozer [quote]@Reason10 95% of these people who hire them ARE Republicans. So doubt it will ever happen. Lip service is all it is.


Besides aren't you a Libertarian?[/quote]

We'll wait patiently while you attempt to produce some sort of PROOF that those animals are hired mostly by Republicans. Of course, you have to research how many of those employers were busted by federal officers and maybe find out what political party they are members of. I could save you the time because Republicans follow the law. DemoNazis do not.

Second question: I have elements of conservative Republicanism (the rule of law, strong borders) but I also have the economic free market philosophies of libertarians. I part company with libertarians who would open the borders and legalize crack cocaine, but other than that I'm pretty much a free marketer.

I don't vote Libertarian because (a) the LP will never become a national party, which means it'll never be able to take over Congress and (b) the libertarians lost me when brilliant minds like Ron Paul and Andre Marrou were replaced by hard left Republicans like Gary Johnson. Today's LP is a joke.
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