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Seriously though, I appreciate your idea, but it appears to buy into a victim's sacrifice ethic.
Your recommendation rests on an assumption that most corporations and companies are unable to pay well, (living wages) and hire more people. Large corporations are, generally, sitting on large profits. The belt has been tightened and workers are expendable commodities. In fact, they are so cheap and relatively valueless that fodder is more apt a term than commodity -- coffee and chocolate have real value!
We have a vial of poison right now that many people are waking up to with stomach pains after already having ingested it. Our free market capitalism, to put it simply, is betraying its "everyone benefits if you give it time" jargon and we are seeing the results of its ideology; many of us see it first hand.
No, I think enough poison has already been taken in by the masses, (in the form of empty rhetoric and false hope) and a concession like the one you propose is more akin to a surrender to the bloody carnage that is leaving homeless bodies strewn in the streets, working employees to the mental and physical bone, and placing more and more hardship on vast numbers of people for the sake of someone else's overwhelmingly HUGE, to the point of nauseating, profits. Consider how emboldened the owner's would feel if we were willing to work for even less than what is already not enough? That gesture would be like a puppy whimpering for food.
We are at the threshold where this is going to get very confrontational and traumatic only because the current system is deeply entrenched and unwilling to allow the kind of change that will meet the dire needs of growing numbers of people. We have already made an immense concession in the sense that vast amounts of wealth have recently, (and in the last few decades) been transferred from public trust and our hands into the hands of a few. How can you make a sacrifice to mammon like that? It's not altruistic to enable the wealthy to continue to manipulate and control us to the very edge and dregs of our sustenance and existence. Why make it even easier to drain our personal resources and dis-empower the people economically?
As you see, this is not personal and I appreciate your views and your ideas, though I disagree for many reasons.
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