That is quite valid, and in both cases market forces should correct appropriately. Wal-mart will have to pay enough to have someone come off the street, and the self-employed will work for little pay for the hopes of a brighter future. Like interns. Our current system has problems, but we can’t even address those because we can’t have a discussion.
That’s great, but it is irrelevant to the points I raised. We have clear problems with how we distribute and reward effort, but we’re not going to make much headway on those if we can’t raise your current level of thinking and have one discussion where we actually listen and respond to each other.
I’ll give it a shot. I’m sorry, it won’t be pretty. I’ve tried my best already. Some foundations in logic may help you.
I work for a large-cap multinational company. We have a mixed union and contractor workforce. For much of our work, we price down to the unit. I avoided talking about butts filling seats as that’s far less important to an organization than actual work getting done; in fact entire departments have been replaced with systems and automation.
Freelancers, consultants, doctors, plumbers, teachers. We price work. Whether it’s fair or not is an entirely different issue.
It is unfair to the unemployed, as I stated, if the union prevents them from attaining employment.
Corporations behaving poorly doesn’t give us the moral authority to behave poorly as well. We can change things, not only for our selfish selves, but for everyone. To get there, we need to raise our awareness.
Appeal to tradition and likely an incorrect one at that. Given peasant revolts and slavery, I very much doubt the worker employer labor transfer system was in better shape historically.
