Reply #29: You are repeating the RW talking point that

[Cleita]

there is a choice between no job and a low paying job. Reality doesn't bear this out. If you need two workers, you still need two workers and paying them half of what they should earn isn't going to change that fact.

Although companies try to make their employees do two jobs or even three, it isn't a very good strategy in the long run and they will lose efficiency because of it. If you can't run your business without slave labor, then your management sucks.

I am a retired payroll bookkeeper so in those years I learned a lot about wages. The more successful companies that I worked for also had well paid employees because to run a business successfully you need to seek the markets that will buy your service or product not cut corners where your productivity goes down.

Your employees represent your company and if you have some nose picking slag representing your business because you got her cheaply, she isn't going to represent your business very well. Back when I was in college, minimum wage actually did cover a minimum COL. I never noticed businesses going broke because of it. Other factors contributed to loss of profits, but it wasn't wages. Also, the labor board back then strictly enforced the rules because they hadn't suffered from staff cutbacks either then.