11-13-2015, 02:06 PM
(11-13-2015, 01:40 PM)Au165 Wrote: You are worth what someone says you are worth, it is kind of the whole idea around a capitalist economy like ours. Those jobs don't support a family anymore because we have decided the skill required to do them is either easily replaced by someone else, or by a machine.
This is true. If you think you are worth more, then show those skills and prove you are worth more. If your current job does not allow you to support yourself -- look for another one that will. Gaining skills will never hurt anyone.
Beyond this the real problem is how government structures its benefits. The incentive is to stay in a certain income range (an income box).
If you take government benefits into account (and treated them as compensation) I'd bet wages have risen in the last 25 years instead of being flat.
What are some of these benefits?
Earned income credit
Additional child tax credit
Daycare
HUD housing
Utility subsidies
'Free' YMCA memberships
Food stamps
Cash assistance
Medicaid
Student Aid
There's more.
The problem with every one of those programs is that in order to get them you must keep your income low -- IN the box. Both parties support these programs, but for different reasons.
To each his own... unless you belong to a political party...
