It is an interesting reply that illustrates the decline of the West due to the emotionalization of decisions which could be for the greater good if only people considered them rationally; which intrinsically means dispassionately.
Second take a second to imagine that I care for the people I describe at least as much and probably more than you (my nephew fits into the category), when you currently think the opposite.
It may be worth at least attempting to imagine the above scenario if you really wish to understand why the minimum wage is such a boon for soulless capitalists and so damaging to C2DE types. It is strange that you do not understand I advocate no minimum wage because it would be best for C2DE types, I assume you do not understand/believe that.
Your emotional involvement, of which it it is commendable you are aware of and honest about, means that you are most unlikely to be able to understand the issue correctly.
You're right, I am emotionally involved. It makes me angry when I see policy that negates all compassion, that quashes all possibility of hope for 50,000 young human beings (let alone the 100,000 already squeezed parents that will be put under increased strain to clothe, feed and house their children). It's cynical, boogeyman politics
I advocate no minimum wage as it would be best for C2DE people. I cannot imagine what angle you think I am playing if you think I am lying and I really advocate it because I wish to make life worse for the poorest area of society. The less wealth disparity the safer and better a society is. The policy you so passionately advocate makes life worse for the uneducated poor. How hard is it to understand? It may have made life better for you or people you know, that is absolutely irrelevant. I can imagine how you react to that! I am not being nasty I am trying to imagine how you have come to your position
I am a figure of hate for you and your high degree of emotional involvement means you attribute and associate me and my arguments with many things you dislike, further obscuring the truth from you.
Granted perhaps my language was somewhat hyperbolic. For clarity, how many of the 1.91 million unemployed do you adjudge to have an economic worth less than £6.50 an hour? How about the 9.09 million economically inactive?
There is no need to be that formal, I will give you my judgement instead. You are excited by the word "worth", unless you choose to understand the phrase economically you will be unable to advance your understating... Whatever proportion of the groups have IQs below say 55-60, adding in sociopaths and top range psychopaths, non-medicated schizophrenics and so on. Bare minimum is something like 10%, gun to my head I would guess the real figure was something like 15%.
Furthermore you go on to claim that certain tasks aren't worth a private entity paying a person minimum wage to complete. If we ignore for a second how alarmingly ignorant that comment is (considering how demeaning scrubbing toilets is for less than two pints of lager an hour) we aren't talking about a private entity here, we're talking about a government.
We (well, I...) are talking about minimum wage. It is rational to say a minimum wage means less jobs. Logic dictates that there are less jobs in a state with a min wage than there would be with none. That is the argument, either you fail to understand it or your cognitive dissonance obscures it from you.
how about the government creating jobs out of a national fund intended to provide stop-gap work for the temporarily unemployment alongside a robust, meaningful job centre specifically for the young and unemployed?
I do not appreciate how different your proposal is from the OP particularly. It is kind of sad to read as we live in a society that takes great care of its members if one considers the context of the world and of history.
I read all of your comment and disagreed, I chose the first part as it so clearly typified how moronic and devoid of any kind of strength beyond numbers on a page your argument is.
Thank you for your honesty. Perhaps you would be so kind as to describe the processes by which you believe a minimum wage is for the greater good of the common man, and how it closes the wealth gap rather than widening it. Which it actually does in reality in my humblest of opinions.