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Old 04-04-2021, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by billyb1950 View Post
Any state's minimum wage has little if anything to do with job vacancies. Businesses will fill positions independent of those minimum wages by offering more $$ to hire and retain quality employees. The minimum wage may be $8.64 but the real question is: what is the average market hourly wage across the state? I imagine it's more than minimum. In my personal opinion, three things are missing: work ethic, the value of work to the human condition, and pride. All seem to be woefully missing in the younger generation and if Uncle Sam keeps handing out our tax money to these folks, it will continue.
Yep. It's insidious and institutional. Personal pride and initiative are being bred out of our youth in favor of government control. The Eloi. It's amazing how prescient HG Wells was...I swear his Time Machine was not a novel, but an experiential account of his own time travel.
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