Leaving milk on the floor won't ensure that "someone has to have a job". No one is going to hire a designated milk-returner. All it does is makes someone who is already employed have a more annoying day because their manager is going to scream at them to stop performing their regular duties and pick up a randomly placed milk.
Please don't leave food sitting around in a store. Either put them back, or bring them to the front and tell someone you decided not to purchase them so that they can put them away immediately rather than making them unpleasant Easter eggs around the store.
Never said they would have a designated milk returner. However, if they replace cashiers with do it yourself. What is to stop them from having nothing but self checkouts?
Hey. If they don't want me leaving stuff there.... have a person for me to deal with. Then they will have my money and no milk on the floor. It's not like I spend my free time just going to stores and leaving stuff everywhere for fun.
I am a customer. If I am unhappy at any moment. I am free to leave and I do. They are NOT entitled to my money simply cause they are there.
Obviously wage increases alleviates poverty as is evident in western nations where wages are high compared to, say, Africa. Clearly paying people very low wages isn't the path to economic and social mobility is it? Obviously poorly paid impoverished people cannot participate in a user-pays free-market economy where education is bought for cash and the same with housing and access to heath care and medicines. Especially when the free-market is dominated by wealthy individuals and corporations that block access to those benefits (health care, education, housing).
We are talking about American poverty. Not talking about the poverty in Africa. OBVIOUSLY the pay in Africa is unlivable. However, you pay those people in Africa the wages the poorest of Americans make and it would be a blessing.
The question isnt about whether making more helps. Yes, obviously it does. However the reality of an economy is that when wages rise, so too do the price on all products. Both in luxury items and necessity because the higher ups will NOT take a cut to their bottom line simply because they have to pay their lower level employees more.
How do the rich stop ANYONE from medical care? Have you ever even been to a hospital?
IF students are a failure in an education system, that falls more on the parents than the government. It is NOT the governments job to hold your hand through life.
How do the rich and corporations block education? How about dedicated parents making sure their kids receive a proper education? MANY impoverished young people have become educated on far less resources by parenting and eventually their own drive to do so (Is it easy. No, but LIFE is not promised to be easy. Thats why its more admirable to see someone taking responsibility for themselves and doing it for themselves even though it is harder.). Just cause they don't have top of the line equipment, doesnt mean they can not gain an education.
IF anything is blocking education and making it fail in the system it is the fact that due to politics they tie the hands of good teachers and do not remove the awful ones. Add in a lack of parent involvement (In general, no doubt there ARE dedicated parents out there, but since we are speaking of the system as a whole) is it any wonder that the system fails?
How is it that the rich block housing? Funny. Before I moved into my current apartment. I lived next to a MUCH nicer apartment complex that I was NOT allowed to enter. Not because I make to little. Simply cause I make too much. So.... that is how the rich block housing? Giving nicer places to less fortunate than the "middle"?
IF the rich block housing. How is it that the banks "needed" to be bailed out? Because gave way to many loans to those that could and did pay those loans back?
We can get rid of absolute poverty and people not being able to have their basic needs met, but the only way to get rid of relative poverty is to have everyone make the same amount. It's like saying "we want everyone to be above average", that doesn't work. Sure, hypothetically the median income in the U.S. could be $100,000, but in order for that median to exist there has to be people at the bottom, that's how just how numbers work.
If everyone makes the same amount. What drives anything at that point? If someone makes 100,000 working half as hard. What would be the point?
Yes an even split of all the money WOULD solve poverty. However it is not a realistic proposal. Even if nobody wakes up to the fact for years. Eventually people will wonder why they work harder to make the same.
I am also not for the idea of taking from those who have to give to the have nots by force. Yes, those with plenty SHOULD help others in need. However when it is by force.... it is just wrong. I am NOT part of this mythical 99%, nor am I part of the so called 1%.