Ok, I’ll bite. I care whether it’s hard for Joe the Pizza guy to start his second pizza joint. I want competition and innovation in the pizza joint market. I want a fertile bed of innovation and local alternatives to Papa John’s and Pizza Hut and Domino’s.
There’s a shortage of *good* pizza joints (and other small biz restaurants), and if the marketplace is chock full of mega-corp, franchised pizza joints (ones that can afford an employment law compliance department at that scale), then there will be no reasonable path for newcomers.
I don’t think there should be public policy to support a pizza joint selling any particular number of pizzas per day to stay afloat. I also don’t think there should be public policy actively inhibiting any group of people (employer and employees) from agreeing on how to split the potential profits from trying.
Also, since I’m alreay spending the keystrokes to post, let me say that calling SDR out on his commision is the height of irony. No one sets a minimum wage for SDR’s profession. It’s legally possible for him to agree to take a job for effectively less than minimum wage, and no legal policy is currently standing in the way of clients paying him so little (per hour of labor).
The right to undercut one’s competition in terms of price is not a right that is afforded our workers whose skills are in least demand.[/quote]
Thanks for your reasoned response. I’ll get to it in the morning. But your claim that I “called out” SDR on his commission is not accurate. I asked him if he was entitled to it, which I think he is. Just as I think employees are entitled to the pay they’ve agreed to accept.
