“Additionally, this healthcare debacle is why many of us are staunchly opposed to a for-profit healthcare system. There are far too many conflicts of interest in such a system, and we are NOT getting better care as a result.”
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I view low wages as an external cost like pollution. Saying you need to pay low wages is like saying you must be allowed to pollute in order to compete.
They’ll whine that ALL those jobs will go away, but they won’t. Only some will. So instead of having the 100 people at the poverty wage paying place all dependent on the dole for food stamps and health care, we’d have some of them on the dole and many of the remainder would be working at the place that paid real wages and still made decent stuff that was worth the price paid. We’d all have to do with less disposable stuff.”
