No one ever got rich (or even stayed in business) by paying their workers any more than is absolutely necessary. Even Marx had a very good way of explaining that. I can't remember the term, But I'll find it later.
Then you should not go into business if you can't afford to pay a fair wage.
Where do you draw the line? Migrant workers who don't know any better and pay them a pittance.
Employ kids on government training schemes so they are subsidized. Good for you, but others pay for this in our taxes.
Or do we just go back to slave labor?
The income differential is marked in every country in the World.
If you think about it, that is the way it has to be.
No it doesn't. It is that way becasue it is exploited by those with the ability to exploit.
Take a small town with three milk bars that employs a small workforce with a fair wage and reasonable hours and conditions. Some marketing company in a capital city identifies it as a market to exploit and one of there big corporate's build a big supermarket. Now the milk bars cant compete, they either put off staff or close down and the supermarket employees kids for the minimum wage, shit hours and conditions with an expendable staff policy,
Why, becasue one of the haves in the affluent belt can. He becomes filthy rich, at the expense of an entire town.
We had here in my town a big medical profession rally complaining about some changes that the government was going to make. The newspapers were all over it, oh the poor doctors will have to raise consultation fees, people will be worse off etc etc. It was held outdoors inn a big park in my town. I jumped in my dirty old Hilux and went for a drive.
I should have took a photo, the cars, all Mercedes BMW, Saab, a few exotics ones. Yeah... the poor doctors, they are doing it so tough.
I agree some small businesses are doing it tough. But I have worked with these people, 90% of the time it is Bullshit. Oh were doing it tough, in their 45 square house on a half acres with the speedboat and paddock full of horse.
I am sorry, but people doing things that are not morally right just becasue they can in my opinion of as wrong as it gets.
I could say much more but I will leave it.