It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.
I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.
Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.
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