If your biz model is based on paying slave wages - your business deserves to fail

[moonscape]

12. If someone isn't productive enough then yes, let them go

and hire someone who is. The person will then decide to be more productive in their next job, or if they have an alcohol or drug problem as you mentioned, that needs to be addressed separately. Holding down the wages of others to cover for them doesn’t seem fair.

If a business can’t sustain itself paying a living wage, then maybe the business needs to be assessed for viability or creative solutions.

It is wrong for some to have to work 2 full-time jobs to put a roof over their head, but that’s the situation too many are in.

I was a small-business owner so it’s not that I’m not sympathetic or think you’re a monster, but we have a destructive economic divide in this country and those at the very bottom of the food chain are bearing the brunt and this does need to change.