Paying people a livable wage for making their employer all of their money is NEVER a bad idea.
You're right.
However what happens when that employee doesn't make the employer money?
What happens when an employees' productivity is BELOW a livable wage?
That's not the point. We're supposed to be turning businesses into welfare distribution centers.
So now employees are welfare recipients? You're making Putin proud.
They are when the government forces their pay to be higher than the value of their work.
Employees make employers all of their money, so what's the value of the employee?
It's not the value of the employee that matters. It's the value of the employee's contribution to the bottom line. The employees are worthless without management's direction, so they don't make all the money.