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Originally Posted by crockett
If someone puts in the effort to work a 40hrs job they should at least make enough to stay above the poverty level.
No one is saying a company has to keep useless people around, but if they do keep them around, they should be paid a living wage.
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Why? If all i can do is shovel shit (metaphorically) why should I get "a livable wage ($15.00/hr) A mini bobcat like they use in horse stables can shovel as much shit as 10 men with 1 driver and a part time hand laborer. The bobcat costs $20K once every 4 years $5K a year for the smallest one. That is $300K for livable wage laborers vs about $140K a year for man and machine.
I know I replaced 3 expensive construction laborers that if they showed up for work, they were fucked up half the time and bitched about having to work for $15/ hr 20 years ago the rest of the time -- my ears hurt!!!!. So, fuck em -- I bought a machine and kept one guy. Life in the building contracting business. Good thing was the guy that was left became an apprentice mason for me. 5 years after I closed the business and moved on Dennis called me from Texas and told me he got a job as a mason, was making good money and he thanked me for teaching him a trade
There is a good side to everything if you work toward it. If the best you can do is shovel shit with the ''spoon of knowledge'' as we called the shovel -- you can be replaced by a machine in most cases. Life is a bitch then you die ...