[JordanFarmer]

That is why contract positions have a far higher payout. I know many contractors who come out on top this way. Many have a spouse with a job that provides Insurance for the family. They pocket that extra. Others just enjoy the autonomy of the hours they work ETC. If restaurants are exploiting workers by calling them contractors, why do the workers stand for it? Go work somewhere else. Why does that restaurant have cooks on staff if they are indeed mistreating them? Are people so weak in this generation that they can't make things happen themselves and need the government to save them?

"Strong men create easy times, easy times produce weak men, weak men cause hard times, hard times produce strong men."

Get ready for hard times...

[scarejunba]

The government is of the people, so yeah that's how they're making things happen this time. If you have two tools and never use one, then you only have one tool. In America, we have both the ballot box and the market.

[JordanFarmer]

The track record of the government saving people and fixing things is absolutely abysmal. It is literally insane (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result). Why has the black poverty level been the same for 60 years? Do you know how many laws and programs the government has created to save them? The government doesn't do anything very well. There are always so many unintended consequences that need more laws and programs till there is so much red tape and taxes needed to pay for all the bureaucracy and programs. Government officials campaign on promises of half baked ideas. Then when they get elected, they do their job, making more and more laws and programs. Progressives are even realizing now that the government has created a welfare generation and are pushing to end it in favor of guaranteed basic income. Look at the insane amounts of money sunk into inner-city schools and do things ever improve? No.

The government is a failure for social programs and fixing problems citizens face. This is easily proven though statistics. How do we keep on going down this path? I'll never understand big government people...

[taurath]

That sounds like a talk radio tagline. Real wages have barely improved since the 70s. The safety net has been dismantled. We're in the 3rd world in terms of worker protections.

But toughen up! Don't fight for better pay, go work for someone else and the market will provide!