Maximum Effort for Minimum Wage

How's it goin' Cyberspace?

I'm doing quite well. Today as I was thinking about which logical fallacy I should attack, I stated to think about my time constraints, as I have to work at 6pm. That one thought really got the juices flowing - by the end of my 5.75 hr shift, I might take home $45. I began to wonder...is this even worth my time?

The short answer is no. No job that pays minimum wage is worth anyone's time. If your employer doesn't feel that you are valuable enough to pay more than the bare minimum, than why would they expect you to put more than the bare minimum required effort into the job? It doesn't make sense. From a business standpoint, however, it's the ONLY thing that makes sense.

This is the exact thinking that has crippled the United States. Instead of using similar ideas and practices that the country was founded on, the business moguls began to realize that foreign labour is much, much cheaper. The United States got out of the business of producing and manufacturing and turned to the creation of debt as the primary source of income for the country (really the Federal Reserve, which flies in the face of the constitution - of course the constitution has already been circumvented so much that it's literally less valuable than the paper it's printed on), which sounds completely ridiculous - because it is. When 100% of a country's GDP is debt, it's not hard to see why their economy is in severe disarray.

So I propose to you this - every single person who works for minimum wage should just take a week off. It's just like the Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) suggestion from Fight Club - the worst paid people in our 'First World' countries actually run it. Not just those minimum wage jobs either - think about apprentice tradesmen for example. Think about it - how easy would it be for one of those people in the back of McDonald's to pour some Javex into the Big Mac sauce? How easy would it be for an apprentice mechanic to 'forget' to tighten your lugnuts so your wheel falls off on the highway?

It just seems to me that the people who are responsible for some of the most important things in our society (power, water, fast food - like it or not, transportation, etc) are severely underpaid. It's almost as though those bankers and politicians are daring the population to try to affect the status quo. But alas, the governments (of North America especially), have successfully planted the idea in the minds of the masses that the government holds all of the power. The people are afraid of the government - the exact opposite of how a democracy is supposed to run.

At this point, until we decide to band together and stand up for what's right...we will continued to be trampled upon. We will continue to have our rights and liberties stripped away (ie - in the US any person can be detained for any amount of time with no charge as a suspected "terrorist") until we are living in an Orwellian police state. If you don't know what that is, watch the movie V for Vendetta.

Maximum effort for minimum wage. That's reality for a very large percentage of the population. Until we make it change, it won't - not in this world of the 'human resource'.

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The Critical Stranger
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