Bing! You hit the target right the first time. Since "equality" is the only proper goal; paying everyone at least "X" number of dollars, regardless of whether the worker is producing that much value for the company, it must be required of the company. Read "Atlas Shrugged" to see what that does to everybody, socially, morally, and culturally. Socialism is a system based on magical thinking, not reality, so the concept of "living wage" can only be compelled through government coercion, and will inevitably fail. Any other notion is magical/nonsensical thinking, and must be guarded against.
Bing! You hit the target right the first time. Since "equality" is the only proper goal; paying everyone at least "X" number of dollars, regardless of whether the worker is producing that much value for the company, it must be required of the company. Read "Atlas Shrugged" to see what that does to everybody, socially, morally, and culturally. Socialism is a system based on magical thinking, not reality, so the concept of "living wage" can only be compelled through government coercion, and will inevitably fail. Any other notion is magical/nonsensical thinking, and must be guarded against.
The $25 an hr for $5 an hr worth of work at mcdonalds is BS. They have $1000 hrs bk to bk for $13 an hr pay go lie to someone else