You haven't really addressed what I said here though, namely that minimum wage workers live riskier lives than business owners so the risk argument is kind of BS and the opportunity to
a) take the "risk" of starting a business and b) benefit from other people starting businesses is available very arbitrarily
Frankly because i don't believe it. If you can't afford to live on the wage you agreed to work for you either negotiate a better wage or you find work willing to pay you more. If you can't find and hold a job like everyone else then i'm sorry i no one can help you at that point.
Well no i think they do so because they work in state owned factories with such a huge overpopulation problem that there is no room for negotiation as you are incredibly replaceable. But i think that's just my genuine hate for easterners coming through.
Most sweatshops are owned by (or at least operated almost exclusively to the benefit of) US corporations and their shareholders, not "states".
In fact, when I was talking about children making T-Shirts in sweatshops until their fingers bleed, I was talking about Guatemalan garmet factories. The Guatemalan "state" tried to put an end to their people working in sweatshops and plantations and the CIA couped them so US corporations could continue making money. Even wikipedia says so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
You haven't really addressed what I said here though, namely that minimum wage workers live riskier lives than business owners so the risk argument is kind of BS and the opportunity to
a) take the "risk" of starting a business and b) benefit from other people starting businesses is available very arbitrarily
Frankly because i don't believe it. If you can't afford to live on the wage you agreed to work for you either negotiate a better wage or you find work willing to pay you more. If you can't find and hold a job like everyone else then i'm sorry i no one can help you at that point.
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Do you really think children who work in sweatshops making T-Shirts until their fingers bleed are doing it because they're bad negotiators?
Well no i think they do so because they work in state owned factories with such a huge overpopulation problem that there is no room for negotiation as you are incredibly replaceable. But i think that's just my genuine hate for easterners coming through.
Most sweatshops are owned by (or at least operated almost exclusively to the benefit of) US corporations and their shareholders, not "states".
In fact, when I was talking about children making T-Shirts in sweatshops until their fingers bleed, I was talking about Guatemalan garmet factories. The Guatemalan "state" tried to put an end to their people working in sweatshops and plantations and the CIA couped them so US corporations could continue making money. Even wikipedia says so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat