{"id":11009,"date":"2015-08-08T05:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T05:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/08\/jean-luc-gohard-i-honestly-dont-understand-why\/"},"modified":"2015-08-08T05:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T05:33:17","slug":"jean-luc-gohard-i-honestly-dont-understand-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/08\/jean-luc-gohard-i-honestly-dont-understand-why\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jean-luc-gohard.tumblr.com\/post\/126039496598\">jean-luc-gohard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I honestly don\u2019t understand why there aren\u2019t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don\u2019t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A forty hour work week is considered full time.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule <i>required<\/i> of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)<\/li>\n<li>A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.<\/li>\n<li>Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and\/or management\/executive pay\/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.<\/li>\n<li>Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jean-luc-gohard: I honestly don\u2019t understand why there aren\u2019t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don\u2019t simply distill it to the simplest of facts: A forty hour work week is considered full time. It\u2019s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/08\/jean-luc-gohard-i-honestly-dont-understand-why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[839,154],"class_list":["post-11009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geez","tag-yes","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}