I appreciate you reading and the thoughtfulness of your response. I just respectfully disagree on every point.

“Nobody owes anybody a job.” No kidding. You make it sound like it’s benevolence that brings employment, and not necessity. Employers hire people because they need people to work with them in building their…

Please, tell me where you work so I don’t make the mistake of working for or with a dickhead like you. You are siding with jerks who economically abuse the young and/or poor. I bet you’re one of those gilded spoon twenty-somethings that thinks you got everything due to “hard work and grit” when it was really your daddy’s money. I can’t wait until you…

In Response To: The Working Poor

I think this is an awesome idea. It will help a lot of families, and people who live in the Los Angeles area. I work a minimum wadge job, and I know what it’s like to struggle with pay.

$15/hour? Done. What’s next?

A debate has raged within the labor movement for years about what role unions should take in supporting social policy that helps all workers, regardless of whether they are in a union or not. Some union staff and members feel that if workers can get higher wages or better…

Jay,

C’mon. You’re talking about symptoms as if they are causes. Consumer spending makes up 70% of our economic activity in America. Almost all of that spending is from people with family incomes between $25,000 and $80,000. Without spending, there is no growth. And as for savings? Yeah, if your wages were systematically…

You try making $15,000 a year and having money to put away as an investment. They simply don’t have enough.

People are not commodities of our economic system. Our economic system — money, in general — was created by us and exists to serve the population as a tool. Money is a tool. Nothing more. Our economic system is a tool…