To hire someone who's labor cannot justify the "living wage" is to engage in charity and many small business owners cannot afford to be that generous.
if you cannot afford to run your business without slave labor then society should not allow your business to remain open.
The Apple Store employees, just like those of any other company, are not slaves by the very fact that they can quit at any time. Your ability to go elsewhere and earn more is not decided by Apple, but by your own level of skill.
In addition, who is to decide what the living wage is? The government? One could argue that if the minimum wage were, say $20 per hour, Apple wouldn't open any stores at all since it might not be profitable to do so; and so you would solve "the problem" by getting rid of the low paying jobs. You would get your wish.
Unfortunately, there would be more competition for what remained and the same employees you call "slaves" would have no wage at all since they would not have the skills to compete in the market. (In that case, I would be expecting you to ask the government to raise taxes to subsidize jobs because the evil corporations won't make any.)
Actually, when you say that a FET can amplify signals in the ~10 GHz range, you're talking about the small signal model (i.e. oscillation with amplitude which a small fraction of the supply voltage). This reasoning doesn't necessarily apply to digital logic.
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To hire someone who's labor cannot justify the "living wage" is to engage in charity and many small business owners cannot afford to be that generous.
if you cannot afford to run your business without slave labor then society should not allow your business to remain open.
The Apple Store employees, just like those of any other company, are not slaves by the very fact that they can quit at any time. Your ability to go elsewhere and earn more is not decided by Apple, but by your own level of skill. In addition, who is to decide what the living wage is? The government? One could argue that if the minimum wage were, say $20 per hour, Apple wouldn't open any stores at all since it might not be profitable to do so; and so you would solve "the problem" by getting rid of the low paying jobs. You would get your wish. Unfortunately, there would be more competition for what remained and the same employees you call "slaves" would have no wage at all since they would not have the skills to compete in the market. (In that case, I would be expecting you to ask the government to raise taxes to subsidize jobs because the evil corporations won't make any.)
Actually, when you say that a FET can amplify signals in the ~10 GHz range, you're talking about the small signal model (i.e. oscillation with amplitude which a small fraction of the supply voltage). This reasoning doesn't necessarily apply to digital logic.