Then you won't mind if all the janitors quit their jobs to train to become CEO's
At least I won't be loosing my job if no one cleans up around the office. Do we need the janitors to do their jobs? Of course. Do we need supervisors, managers and CEOs to run buisnesses effectively to assure my job is secure? Absolutely. I can't fathom thinking that I would pay the person who sweeps around my desk the same as the person who determines if my job and my co-workers jobs will exist in a week.
Since this has happened (Enron)...
I am so pleased you were able to read on to the next sentence, where I specifically said *IF* they do their job right. Of course these examples are ones were they didn't deserve their pay, or their jobs, since they did their jobs wrong and people lost their jobs. There are no guarantees in the world, but you can at least try to increase the odds your company will succeed by having a well qualified boss who is compensated appropriately for the importantance of their work.
The janitor's function in society is just as important as that of the CEO of Exxon...
No, it isn't. If a janitor does his job wrong, someone doesn't have toilet paper in their stall the next day. If a CEo of a major corporation does their job wrong, 100s to 1000s of people loose their jobs, hard working people loose money in their 401K for retirement and we all pay when these things happen. So I think that CEO deserves a but more pay as long as he does his job right.
Also, if you do raise minimum wage, and they don't lay people off, then the price of goods go, raising the cost of living, making your now increased minimum wage less of a living wage. Congratz! Lets not get into if the government should be controlling even more aspects of our lives, such as how much the small buisness man has to pay the few employees he can barely afford, which by the way is him trying to return something to his community.
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