Do we WANT higher wages for the working class?

When wages go up for one group, then other groups also request and receive higher wages which then has companies raise the prices for consumer goods. The original group ends up back where they started.

There are more efficient ways to help the working-class. What has harmed workers has been the removal of different benefits over the decades. They need to be reintroduced.

Taxes have become basically a flat tax in the U.S. where the working-class pay a greater share than the rich. Working-class need their taxes lowered and the rich should be paying a higher and fairer share.

Benefits like paid sick leave, pensions or 401ks, paid parental leave, better working conditions and unionized workers, etc. can go along way to help them.

I want lower gravity so I can dunk like I'm 7 feet tall.

I also want a pony.

I'm strongly in favour of higher wages for the working class. Life is very expensive and costs keep going up. Wages need to go up to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Some may say that companies will raise prices if wages increase, but they already do raise prices anyways, regardless of wages.

if we're talking about a raise in the minimum wage then no! the economy is a mess, everytime we raise the minimum wage we see unemployment also rise in the 12-18 months after that. because there will be companies that are barely surviving. so if you make them pay their employees more, then they'll do one of 3 things.

1. stop hiring, 2. let people go or 3, close down.

i have a friend whos a plumber, he started off when he was fresh out of high school, a company hired him as a trainee paying not a lot of money, but that was ok by him because he lived at home, now he's a plumber and earning great money.

if you would have made a company pay him a certain wage then he would have never got that training. they would have never hired someone who needed training and be paid so much.

liberals think throwing money at something is the solution, but theres never any intelligent thought to it.

I'd settle for wages of the rich to be lowered.

No one is worth a million+ dollars a year.

Well we don't need minimum wage starting at $50.00 an hour like that woman wanted in California.. When it comes to working in fast food, you can only raise the wage so high before you as an owner have to go out of business or go robotic

In the not too distant future there'll no longer be a "working class".
These jobs will be done by machines.
Human society is undergoing global upheaval, partly due to these changes.

For the present, workers in certain industries should be paid better.
The service sector in particular is poorly paid in the USA (e.g. gastronomy, salesclerks).

i don't want higher wages just because.

people who get higher wages ideally are getting them through higher productivity, with some form of personal capital increasing their value. experience at a task, within a field, ability to do something more efficiently because of cognitive gifts that person is lucky to have. or charm & charisma.

in a free market, failures are just as important as successes. failure is a signal to do something different, to yourself & to someone else.

so i think it's important to let people fail, just like it's important to let companies fail.

i'm for preventing people from becoming destitute, but beyond that, i don't consider a person working for a low wage a bad result. working at a low wage is one of the best ways to get the qualities you'll need to ultimately get a higher wage.

i personally would like to see all forms of gov't wage manipulation abolished (minimum wages especially, tax incentives for providing health & other benefits, etc) coupled with something like a mincome program.

i'm no expert, but i think that's the best way to increase employment among idle groups & improve productivity.