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| Wildeboden | Mar 23 2015, 01:18 AM Post #1 |
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Because implementing a living wage will maximize the most amount of net benefits, I affirm the resolution that, “Resolved: Just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage”Since the resolution uses the term ought, which means moral obligation, I value morality. The only way to achieve morality is through utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the moral theory that is based on maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number. Thus my value criterion is maximizing the most amounts of the net benefits. Use Utilitarianism when creating policies because: a. Government policies entail tradeoffs b. public action is required from the inability of individual action to achieve certain morally desirable ends. A. A living minimum wage brings people out of poverty. According to Dube, an economist, an immediate increase in the federal minimum wage is projected to reduce the number of those living in poverty by around 6.8 million. B. A living wage will boost consumerism. raising the minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of working families when they need it most, thereby augmenting their spending power.¶ Increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 by July 1, 2015, would give an additional $51.5 billion over the phase-in period to affected workers, who would, in turn, spend those extra earnings. This projected rise in consumer spending is critical to any recovery, especially when weak consumer demand is one of the most significant factors holding back new hiring. Cooper and Hall '13 Raising the minimum wage means minimum wage workers have more money to expend which means more money ripples throughout the economy as minimum wage employees are able to spend more. -Halvorsen '14 C. Consumerism is good. Consumerism is fast emerging as an environmental force affecting major business decisions as consumers become more aware about their rights. A broad recognition and growing acceptance of consumerism makes the firms more consumer‐oriented rather than product‐oriented. It is noted that consumerism tends to serve as an opportunity for those corporate managers who are able to identify and anticipate the consumer’s problems. FOR THESE REASONS: Article 1 Section 1. Raise the minimum wage to $10/hr Edited by Wildeboden, Mar 28 2015, 10:05 PM.
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| CDLand | Mar 23 2015, 05:34 PM Post #61 |
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"So the main argument here is that the people we want to help will not be helped. " Yeah that's pretty much the libertarian perspective on this. Also if you forbid companies from finding cheap labor abroad, you'd better be prepared to have pretty much every single everyday good increase in prices. That includes clothing, toys, electronics, etc. And once again, the poor here are hurt the most by an increase in prices for those consumer goods. |
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| The Rhein States | Mar 23 2015, 05:39 PM Post #62 |
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Back to square one, well, I have said what I wanted to say. Yes, I have 2 faces but society is complicated with the way you think we are not going to solve problems. |
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| Wildeboden | Mar 23 2015, 05:47 PM Post #63 |
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Just realized, half this debate went in a circle. I guess really its the butterfly effect, except really more of the "one greedy corporation" effect. As long as there is greed in the world there will never be a way to solve the world's problems, and theres no surefire way to stop greed so. yeah. |
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| Keventle | Mar 23 2015, 06:39 PM Post #64 |
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So the moral of the story is: Increasing min. Wage dosent work. |
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| ILTrains | Mar 23 2015, 06:49 PM Post #65 |
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More or less so like nothing works. It's a bottomless pit. I still believe that it is a step in the right direction, something that should be used in a grand plan and not just a singled out one. |
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| Wildeboden | Mar 23 2015, 07:16 PM Post #66 |
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Moral of the story: nothing works. |
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| Keventle | Mar 23 2015, 07:32 PM Post #67 |
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capitalism works. |
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| Keventle | Mar 23 2015, 07:36 PM Post #68 |
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so you just told me it doesn't work, yet you still want to raise it and inflate our money more just to put us off in a worse position without some overthrowing of the entire global society (which is capitalism in some form or another)? |
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| ILTrains | Mar 23 2015, 07:42 PM Post #69 |
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Not completely. |
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| Keventle | Mar 23 2015, 07:44 PM Post #70 |
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Ron Reggie
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true. Closer you are to laissez faire the better. |
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