AintPatrick

Have you thought about putting your topics on a site with a metered paywal, just like newspapers do so they benefit from people sharing the stories and when someone clicks it’s a chance to grab an email?

This is the key point that will be lost on all the liberal idealists.

People are paid what their services are worth to the employer. Forcing a higher pay forces the employer to cut staff, hours, come up with an alternative like robots. Otherwise prices have to be raised which means the company loses business to cheaper competitors who don’t have to pay more than the market and labor supply would demand.

An aside: no one is forced to work at Amazon. If people don’t like the job they can quit. I see the same phenomena at Walmart. Unions complain about how terrible they are but they usually pay more than the local mom and pop stores and often offer benefits those local stores don’t. And I see the same people working at Walmart for decades.