Mike Meginis wrestling with an invisible hand:
Most minimum wage employees are absolutely essential to our economy and quality of life, not just because we exploit them to lower prices and perform undesirable tasks but because they do jobs that need to be done. Working retail sucks, but without retail there’s no manufacture, no entertainment, nothing […]
Entries Tagged as 'economy'
Even More Econ
February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: economy
Tenets of After Corbu: At Least It’s an Ethos
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments
From the comments:
My parents invented their our industry, a previously non-existant niche in the international market. This took over twenty years of endless work and sacrifice. If the government forced them to give parts of the company to their employess, tell me how that’s NOT wrong.
Explain to me why.
–Jeremy Clagett
A fair question. Let’s look […]
Tags: economy
Going off the Red End
February 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Mike Meginnis:
If the rich seriously will abandon our society, this society that has helped them so much more than they deserve, then there is a solution: simply pass a law limiting the amount of funds that can be taken out of the country. Refuse capital the right to steal resources gathered and made valuable not […]
Tags: economy