Oh, and one other point on minimum wage...
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Christian Graus wrote:
I wonder how many people would choose freedom, over food and shelter ?
I would. Freedom is priceless and if I had no standard options to get food and shelter then I would trap rabbits and build my own damn place. You don't need society to live. There is always a way to make a living, whether its in nature or in the city you can always live fairly well if you try. This has nothing to do with minimum wage but I would much rather have freedom and get my own damn food and shelter than be a slave to the government and have food and shelter given to me.
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Captain See Sharp wrote:
I would.
I'm sure you would.
Captain See Sharp wrote:
then I would trap rabbits and build my own damn place
What if you lived in the middle of LA ? Just picking LA because I've seen it, and it's huge.
Captain See Sharp wrote:
This has nothing to do with minimum wage but I would much rather have freedom and get my own damn food and shelter than be a slave to the government and have food and shelter given to me.
Well, that really is my attiude too, I was still willing to take the dole while I looked for work. But, I was never happy about it. I just knew that I needed to eat and live. Living in the woods, how would you go on to find a job ?
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Captain See Sharp wrote:
I would.
I'm sure you would.
Captain See Sharp wrote:
then I would trap rabbits and build my own damn place
What if you lived in the middle of LA ? Just picking LA because I've seen it, and it's huge.
Captain See Sharp wrote:
This has nothing to do with minimum wage but I would much rather have freedom and get my own damn food and shelter than be a slave to the government and have food and shelter given to me.
Well, that really is my attiude too, I was still willing to take the dole while I looked for work. But, I was never happy about it. I just knew that I needed to eat and live. Living in the woods, how would you go on to find a job ?
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Christian Graus wrote:
What if you lived in the middle of LA ? Just picking LA because I've seen it, and it's huge.
You could either get out of there by any means you can or get associated with the right people.
Christian Graus wrote:
Living in the woods, how would you go on to find a job ?
Well living in the woods is extreme unless you actually managed to build a nice cabin. Think about how America got started or how a city grows from a few shacks and tents into a big city. You don't need governments to give you money or whatever because you can support your self or team up with people in your situation and do something. The more we heavily rely on other people or governments the weaker we will get. Its like feeding a lion in a cage all its life, it just turns into a lazy, stupid, and helpless creature.
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Christian Graus wrote:
What if you lived in the middle of LA ? Just picking LA because I've seen it, and it's huge.
You could either get out of there by any means you can or get associated with the right people.
Christian Graus wrote:
Living in the woods, how would you go on to find a job ?
Well living in the woods is extreme unless you actually managed to build a nice cabin. Think about how America got started or how a city grows from a few shacks and tents into a big city. You don't need governments to give you money or whatever because you can support your self or team up with people in your situation and do something. The more we heavily rely on other people or governments the weaker we will get. Its like feeding a lion in a cage all its life, it just turns into a lazy, stupid, and helpless creature.
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That's a lovely story. Let me paint you a picture. You live in LA with your wife and two kids. You lose your job. Which wilderness are you going to relocate to, so yuo can feed your wife and kids on trapped rabbits ?
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Even if Jeffersonian principles in the business sense seems to undermine or threaten democratic principles [^]
Jeffersonian concerns about 'big business' are always brought up by Marxists in an attempt to make the two appear similar. Hamilton, in fact, was far closer to being a Marxist than Jefferson was. In the early industrial revolution, just starting about the time of Jeffersons political career, there were concerns about industry versus agriculture, and certainly Jefferson thought an agricultural life an ideal life (even when supported by slavery). But the Jeffersonians were far more concerned about protecting private property from government than they were about industrial growth, and would certainly not have seen infringement upon privately owned business interests by government as being an expansion of democracy.
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That's a lovely story. Let me paint you a picture. You live in LA with your wife and two kids. You lose your job. Which wilderness are you going to relocate to, so yuo can feed your wife and kids on trapped rabbits ?
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Christian Graus wrote:
That's a lovely story. Let me paint you a picture. You live in LA with your wife and two kids. You lose your job. Which wilderness are you going to relocate to, so yuo can feed your wife and kids on trapped rabbits ?
Well it would be easier to rebuild your life if you have a family because you would have more support. Assuming we already have a home I would just get any job I can get and make extra money by freelancing and hopefully my wife would get a job also. There is always work that needs to be done and money to be made and with so many people out there it wouldn't be too hard to get associated with the right people who would help me out and give me work. Just because I lost my job that doesnt mean I should totally abandon society and start my own. I certainly wouldn't just sit around and watch my children starve, it would provide even more motivation. This is totally getting off topic. If the economy totally crashed and I was unable to find work or a way to make money then I would find a place where I could grow some crops and raise some cows or pigs and live off the land. There is always a way to survive.
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peterchen wrote:
You are still free to not employ someone.
Thats like telling me I'm free to not buy anything the government might wish to regulate. That isn't freedom, that is the abscence of it. Thats communism. If I am free, if I own my own pizza hut, it is no ones business but mine and the people I hire how much I pay them. If they don't like it, they can find another job.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Thats like telling me I'm free to not buy anything the government might wish to regulate.
yes.
Stan Shannon wrote:
That isn't freedom, that is the abscence of it.
No.
Stan Shannon wrote:
Thats communism.
No.
Stan Shannon wrote:
If I am free, if I own my own pizza hut, it is no ones business but mine and the people I hire how much I pay them. If they don't like it, they can find another job
When only $2 jobs are available - because everyone paying more cannot compete - they have no job to go to. But conveniently, it's "the markets" fault, not yours or anyones, and the market is of course sacred. it is so convenient for you to have a blamebody like the government that I wonder if you hadn't one, would you make one?
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Regardless of the economic issues, pro or con, it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them. And any one who doesn't understand that is a fucking communist.
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Regardless of the economic issues, pro or con, it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them. And any one who doesn't understand that is a fucking communist.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Regardless of the economic issues, pro or con, it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them. And any one who doesn't understand that is a f****ing communist.
OH MY GOD! I just realized...My donations to charity are steeped in communist ideals! I'm interfering in a poor person's freedom to starve! Why, I'm stopping RIGHT NOW! I'd better alert the Vatican that their tradition of tithing is also based on Marxism. The Reds are everywhere! The Reds are everywhere! AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
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OK, so your core argument is, if you exploit someone sufficiently, they'll get sick of poverty and become a brain surgeon ? No-one has any person issues which prevent them from making more than minimum wage, whatever that is ? And, if minimum wage is $5 an hour, that's $10, 000 a year. You claim that someone making $200 a week lives in a paradise beyond compare, and would never hope to aspire to anything more ? I'm just plain astounded. Did you ever work for the government ? Surely no-one gets this brainwashed just by watching TV ?
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Christian Graus wrote:
I'm just plain astounded. Did you ever work for the government ? Surely no-one gets this brainwashed just by watching TV ?
No, not TV. Through dental fillings. Hence the need for a tinfoil hat. I think Stan's had it on more frequently though - the Marxist signals don't seem to be reaching him anymore and he's dropped off the Marxdar... (Marxist Detection And Ranging).
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Christian Graus wrote:
OK, so your core argument is, if you exploit someone sufficiently, they'll get sick of poverty and become a brain surgeon ?
Yes, percisely. The typical human does not like being exploited, and if given sufficient freedom will tendto avoid it. That is why I don't like the government forcing us to pay minimum wage - thats exploitation of me by the government.
Christian Graus wrote:
No-one has any person issues which prevent them from making more than minimum wage, whatever that is ? And, if minimum wage is $5 an hour, that's $10, 000 a year. You claim that someone making $200 a week lives in a paradise beyond compare, and would never hope to aspire to anything more ?
Of course not, which is why jobs that actually pay minimum wage are rare. and proof of why it should simply be eliminated.
Christian Graus wrote:
Surely no-one gets this brainwashed just by watching TV ?
I was brainwashed by my parents, by reading Jefferson, and living my life as an American - and by observing the dysfunctionality of economies in direct proportion to how committed they are to Marxism.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Yes, percisely. The typical human does not like being exploited, and if given sufficient freedom will tendto avoid it. That is why I don't like the government forcing us to pay minimum wage - thats exploitation of me by the government.
I want to rob people. The government forces me not to rob people through the threat of incarceration. I don't like the government forcing me not to rob. That's exploitation of me by the government. If capitalism is so good to you and gives you freedom, why don't you go buy some uncharted island near Papua New Guinea and live the way you want? Or is capitalism restricting you like it is me?
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Regardless of the economic issues, pro or con, it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them. And any one who doesn't understand that is a fucking communist.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them.
If the government pushes up the minimum wage such that the cost of an item is higher than it's value to me then I don't buy it. No one is forcing me to buy it. Unfortunately, the downside is that the company loses revenue because it can't sell so much.
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Josh Gray wrote:
My point is that the value of something is not what it is worth to you, it's what you are willing to pay for it.
And my point is that if a employee is worth a buck fifty per hour to me, that is damn well what it is worth to me. I'm talking about the cost of making a pizza, not buying one. For the government to put a gun to my head and tell me that I have to pay more than that, is an overt act of economic and political tyranny. The only possible reason for someone not to see that is bacause they are blinded by the glare reflecting off of their shiney Marxist utopia.
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John Carson wrote:
The government sets the minimum that must be paid if you hire labour. It does not, however, compel you to hire labour. Accordingly, if the minimum is more than the labour is worth to you, then you don't hire the labour. Nobody is forced to pay more than the labour is worth to them.
John Carson wrote:
call me a communist if you will
OK, you're a communist. Anyone who cannot see that government interference in what a free citizen pays for anything is tyranny, is, in fact, a communist.
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peterchen wrote:
You are still free to not employ someone.
Thats like telling me I'm free to not buy anything the government might wish to regulate. That isn't freedom, that is the abscence of it. Thats communism. If I am free, if I own my own pizza hut, it is no ones business but mine and the people I hire how much I pay them. If they don't like it, they can find another job.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
That isn't freedom, that is the abscence of it.
Of course it is. You are free to not hire anyone. That's freedom. Freedom of choice. You have the choice to hire someone at the required wage, or do the work yourself. You have the freedom to determine if it's really worth hiring someone. If you feel this posts an unfair infringement on your business, you are also free to sell the business. That's freedom.
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Yeah, you're right. The United States is just like Communist Russia or East Germany :rolleyes: You need papers to go between states. You are restricted to one car color. I see your point. We are so restricted here. :rolleyes: Please give us a break.
ednrgc wrote:
I see your point. We are so restricted here.
I know - it's like, you can't even steal stuff from people or starve to death. And forget about suicide or euthanasia. Talk about government interference. How is that freedom? The U.S. is nothing but a tyrranical communist state that oppresses all people.
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ednrgc wrote:
I see your point. We are so restricted here.
I know - it's like, you can't even steal stuff from people or starve to death. And forget about suicide or euthanasia. Talk about government interference. How is that freedom? The U.S. is nothing but a tyrranical communist state that oppresses all people.
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ednrgc wrote:
You also have the freedom to leave anytime you like.
No I don't, I earn minimum wage! I'm being held captive! Help, help, I'm being repressed!
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Regardless of the economic issues, pro or con, it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them. And any one who doesn't understand that is a fucking communist.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Regardless of the economic issues, pro or con, it is simply an act of political tyranny for any government to force free citizens to pay more for something than it is otherwise worth to them. And any one who doesn't understand that is a f****ing communist.
OH MY GOD! I just realized...My donations to charity are steeped in communist ideals! I'm interfering in a poor person's freedom to starve! Why, I'm stopping RIGHT NOW! I'd better alert the Vatican that their tradition of tithing is also based on Marxism. The Reds are everywhere! The Reds are everywhere! AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
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Communism is about government forcing people to be 'charitable'. Private charity is not communist at all but entirely christian.
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