Are living wages cheaper than revolution???
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It is the responsibility of the political community to create the conditions that allow individuals and families (the purpose of society being the protection of them) to flourish; the so called “common good” and part of this is paying a man (not a woman per se) enough to support a family without being in abject poverty.
There is no such thing as a “living wage.”
It's a communist concept
One of the Canaanites who became renowned as a leading English economist, and still enjoys wide influence in the United States, was David Ricardo (1772-1823), the third son of Abraham Israel, who was a substantial member of the jewish community in Amsterdam. Israel emigrated to London with William III and later became one of the wealthiest members of the London Stock Exchange, where he worked closely with his fellow emigres. His son, David, became an intimate friend of Lord Nathan Mayer Rothschild, speculating heavily in government securities on advice of Rothschild. Together, they profited enormously from the financial coup resulting from early news about the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo. David Israel, now known as David Ricardo, began to write economic dicta intended to become the final word on how much the working class should be paid. He developed a formula which became known as "the subsistence wage," dictating that the worker should never receive more than the bare minimum needed for his subsistence. If his wages were to be increased, the government was charged to take care of it by promptly increasing his taxes (does this sound familiar to any Americans?).
The Canaanites in America developed a new twist with the withholding tax, which insured that the worker would never receive his wages in the first place; he would only receive a mutilated portion, from which the Canaanites had already deducted "their" portion. Ricardo's dictum, which also became known as "the iron law of wages," iron meaning that under no circumstances would the worker ever be the beneficiary of any outburst of generosity and be allowed even a small increase, when Rita Ricardo-Campbell, wife of the director of the Hoover Institution, and a direct descendant of David Ricardo, came to Washington as a key member of Reagan's staff, the Reagan anticommunist, humanitarian Revolution. She became Reagan's advisor on Social Security payments and pensions. Ricardo's economic theories on wages and labor had also been enthusiastically received by Karl Marx, who adopted them as the guidelines by which the slave workers of Soviet Russia are ruled today.
~Eustace Mullins - 'The Curse of Canaan'
I'm starting to see something about history that looks familiar
Maybe, maybe not. But, wages have only occasionally been the straw that broke the camel's back. Revolutions tend to come out from more fundamental problems. FI, the American Revolution snowballed after the Boston Tea Party. But, it was really caused by Britain signing into law that most of what in our bill of rights, which were in some way embedded in the culture, where not directly in law, were no longer, the 2nd and 4th especially. We almost back to that, in most of the West, today.
Shitty governments have long survived the common people being placed into abject poverty. That imbalance tends to collapse, eventually, though.
Wage/wedd - "pledge, agreement, covenant" aka ones consent to any suggestion of another, which binds one into a revolution aka agreement vs disagreement. Waging drains living.
Any pledge/pleon/dlegh - "to engage oneself or become fixed" binds ones free will of choice.