You want everyone to have a living wage? Increase the efficiency and productivity of existing companies to reduce the cost of goods and services, not raise their bottom line.

Or just stop intervening in their lives and let them produce goods and services subject to free competition? Remember, a government can't force anything good to happen.

I don't see how an argument does anything at all.

Justification? You're making double the money, you should be capable of producing double the work.

I bet that was a large part of why you got so many upvotes.. :p

But it's more like when you're selling half as many burgers[1], you need half as many workers too!

[1] Naturally, if the wages are doubled, there's a hefty increase in prices too, which lowers consumption, which lowers revenues, so.. Yeah.

The moral of the story is: you can't force prosperity to happen. Quite the contrary, you have to LET it happen.. but our rulers prefer just looting us as much as possible, and there we go.

It could be used as an argument against raising the minimum wage. After all, the money has to come from somewhere, and customers wouldn't be willing (or even able) to pay a lot more for their Big Macs.

World's best my ass. Scotland is where it's at.

Something like Bitcoin but backed by gold would be pretty sweet, and would replace government funny money in widespread use, if our rulers somehow failed to prevent that from happening, of course.

That's a pretty good stance, but I doubt you'd have actually participated in the slave trade, unless you really are a veritable cunt.

Can you please stop inviting me to play your games, Mr(s?). Psychopath?

Oh, alright. "Social Justice Warrior". It's actually the SJW's that tend to be mindless.

We should also remember to feel bad about pressuring women to wear corsets back whenever the hell that was happening!

Remember, it's always the White Heterosexual Male's fault!!

I'm fortunate enough to not even know what "SJW" stands for. But no, I'm not lost.

It's nice to see another voice of reason here.

Oh, right. I wasn't paying enough attention. Either way, the idea of bringing the guidebook up is to make us white people feel bad about something we had no part in.

Usually it's slavery that's brought up for the same purpose.

As for the police, "Mountainspirit" is largely correct, and black people are way overrepresented in violent crime statistics in the US. Feel free to look it up. But that's a perfectly fine reason for the (well-meaning) police to pay more attention to black people in particular.

My point was that we don't actually need to be reminded of slavery in 2015. Quite the contrary, we should all just forget about it and move on, including black people.

(Note that this comment is, in fact, not racist)

We should also remember to feel bad about pressuring women to wear corsets back whenever the hell that was happening!

Remember, it's always the White Heterosexual Male's fault!!