All you socialists are the same. You want something for nothing. Or something for very little. So every person who works a turd job should be given a "living wage" just because they breathe and trudge to their worthless job every day? Those who are unskilled are replaceable. We naturally place a value on skill. Maybe all of these unskilled workers should combine their meager resources and live under the same roof. What is a "living wage"? Entitlement to a vehicle? A single family home? Give me a break. If all you can do is clean toilets, then you are of little consequence to the workings of the societal machine. I agree with Redleg, that there must be some minimum, but the rest of these arguments are silly.

Yes, Capitalism does reward those that society values most. Should a Doctor be pauid the same as a janitor? No. And if this were the case, we would have less Doctors. There must be an incentive to work hard. Performance must be linked to rewards. If anything, society's values are screwed up. Teachers make very little in the U.S., for example. That is a shame. Many cops and firefighters are underpaid. (Nurses, btw, do quite well in this country since there is a shortage of skilled and trained nurses. See an opportunity here, those who would whine? Supply and demand. Low supply equals higher prices.)



Here is an idea. Let's just establish a base government pay rate for everybody, regardless if they work. Those who choose not to work we'll simply call artists. Anybody who chooses to work will be taxed at 80%, so they can keep 20% of what they make as an incentive to work. That way, everyone gets "their fair share" for having been spit out screaming into a pile of blood and placenta. /sarcasm