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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3639568" data-attributes="member: 63706">Those places are easy to deal with. Vote for better pay and conditions by letting someone else go broke working for them while you work anywhere else. If other people are stupid enough to think a good work ethic means working themselves into homelessness, let them. When the companies run out of idiots to make money off of, then they&#039;ll be forced to pay better or close up shop.If you want to think of it in market terms, a company must pay the minimum that the market will bear. People&#039;s lack of basic personal finance understanding skews the market too low, but only until those people are hit with the reality that they can not afford to work for the low wages they were willing to work for. The market then corrects itself as the idiots drop out of the market and the company is forced to attract smarter employees who command higher wages.Unions are supposed to help stabilize the labor market to prevent the idiots from skewing the price of labor too low, because the idiots may cause the smarter workers to go without work for too long. Free markets are great in theory, they do self-correct, but the timelines for the corrections may not be realistic for the level of the individual, and when too much capital is controlled by too few people, market manipulation becomes inevitable. That is why people must be free to bargain collectively.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 3639568, member: 63706"] Those places are easy to deal with. Vote for better pay and conditions by letting someone else go broke working for them while you work anywhere else. If other people are stupid enough to think a good work ethic means working themselves into homelessness, let them. When the companies run out of idiots to make money off of, then they'll be forced to pay better or close up shop. If you want to think of it in market terms, a company must pay the minimum that the market will bear. People's lack of basic personal finance understanding skews the market too low, but only until those people are hit with the reality that they can not afford to work for the low wages they were willing to work for. The market then corrects itself as the idiots drop out of the market and the company is forced to attract smarter employees who command higher wages. Unions are supposed to help stabilize the labor market to prevent the idiots from skewing the price of labor too low, because the idiots may cause the smarter workers to go without work for too long. Free markets are great in theory, they do self-correct, but the timelines for the corrections may not be realistic for the level of the individual, and when too much capital is controlled by too few people, market manipulation becomes inevitable. That is why people must be free to bargain collectively. [/QUOTE]

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