Should workers in huge cities make much more income than in small towns?

[Robert W]

I have never lived in a very large city. I have visited some. I have spent in some. I never earned in any.
Democrabs blab a lot about income equality. I ask all Democrats, should rural inhabitants make as huge of wages as those in Democrats cities make? Republicans please join in telling us all the facts.

 

[rightwinger]

Employers need to set a wage that meets the cost of living

 

[fncceo]

Employers only need to set a wage that will attract qualified people to the job.

If that is a million a year or 50 cents an hour is inconsequential.

 

[Robert W]

Employers need to set a wage that meets the cost of living

Let's make you an employer for argument sake.
This will be your condition.
You have given raises to your workers. But due to rapid inflation, now in a year prices hiked 9 percent as they did to Biden. You notice your costs all were hiked as well. But your charges to customers did not increase close to that. What will you use to pay those raises you want to your workers?

Also, let me tell the story of Jim. Jim worked for me as a worker in my then machine shop. I hired him from another company after he applied to work for me. I found he was used to working really slow. Still I did not want to fire him. I told my foreman to try to train him how to work competitively. And Greg was paid top wages by me as my Foreman. Greg busted his ass trying to make Jim more able to work better and faster due to fixed costs to my customers. They did not tell me to raise incomes to my employees because they wanted low prices. And I gave my customers top products at best prices.

So Jim shows up in my office telling me he needed a lot more wages. I asked him to check the time cards on jobs he did but Greg had also done. I showed him that Greg was worth a lot more than Jim because he produced so much more than Jim. I said to Jim, be as good as Greg and I will pay you the wages I pay to Greg.

What would you do to an employee demanding higher wages when his output was not very good?

 

[rightwinger]

What would you do to an employee demanding higher wages when his output was not very good?

Different issue….you pay your best workers more

But if it costs more to live in your community, you have to pay more than a low cost of living community

 

[Robert W]

Different issue….you pay your best workers more

But if it costs more to live in your community, you have to pay more than a low cost of living community

So you agree my policy was correct. My community was a bit less costly than say San Francisco. Jim went back to his former job when I closed the machine shop. See i was not rolling in so much money I could pay him more than I took home myself. Jim liked me. I sold him and his wife a home they lived in till he died. He did improve when working for me too.

 

[1srelluc]

What would you do to an employee demanding higher wages when his output was not very good?

Call Norm Peterson to get shed of him.

 

[EMH]

The issue of government pay is a huge issue getting virtually no attention at all. It has been going on for decades. Local officials making $200k per year as education bureaucrats, who only show up a few times a year, but work full time for the Mayor's campaign. And then they bitch that there is no money for pencils...

It is much worse at the local level in cities controlled by the Alliance for Treason, like Minneapolis, San Diego, LA, Chicago etc..


In Nashville, there are at least 200 left wing homos who get more than $200k per year doing nothing working for "education." Mayor "Ready for Freddie" has them ready for the next campaign, and for "special projects" like making sure nobody in Nashville is noticing too much...

 

[jackflash]

I have never lived in a very large city. I have visited some. I have spent in some. I never earned in any.
Democrabs blab a lot about income equality. I ask all Democrats, should rural inhabitants make as huge of wages as those in Democrats cities make? Republicans please join in telling us all the facts.

The cities are critical as they retain enough people to allow us more country oriented folks(farmers/ranchers) to be able to escape the insanity festering within the concrete jungles. Wages/salaries depend on many factors such as supply & demand, taxes, INFLATION, what the market will bear etc. I was fortunate or unfortunate(depending on ones outlook) to have been introduced to a farming lifestyle @ 14 yrs. of age. What I learned between 14-16.5 yrs. of age had a valuable lesson to it as I learned to be more self sufficient than my city counterparts could ever learn to be. I can afford to live comfortably on much less $$$$$ than my city counterparts can for my lifestyle is primarily centered on local creatures rather than the much more expen$ive human to human activities. Of course the city folks will need a higher income as they depend upon city services/conveniences to maintain their lifestyle where I do not for the most part.

 

[Robert W]

Employers need to set a wage that meets the cost of living

What do you want done given that was not my question. Should small towns pay what is paid in say New York city where Democrats run the show?

It sounds as if you said NO, pay small towns a lot less.

 

[Robert W]

The cities are critical as they retain enough people to allow us more country oriented folks(farmers/ranchers) to be able to escape the insanity festering within the concrete jungles. Wages/salaries depend on many factors such as supply & demand, taxes, INFLATION, what the market will bear etc. I was fortunate or unfortunate(depending on ones outlook) to have been introduced to a farming lifestyle @ 14 yrs. of age. What I learned between 14-16.5 yrs. of age had a valuable lesson to it as I learned to be more self sufficient than my city counterparts could ever learn to be. I can afford to live comfortably on much less $$$$$ than my city counterparts can for my lifestyle is primarily centered on local creatures rather than the much more expen$ive human to human activities. Of course the city folks will need a higher income as they depend upon city services/conveniences to maintain their lifestyle where I do not for the most part.

Thank you so much Jack for an excellent reply. I am in a small city. 134,800 in fact. I don't notice it cheaper at the grocery store. Fuel for my car is no cheaper than $2.75 but the prevailing cost is at least $2.99. I have lived on 4 Acres of unimproved farmland other than the shack Dad built for all 7 of us. I was shuffled to an uncles cotton land where he and the family lived in 2 Army tents. I agree this sure keeps us strong and willing to live cheaper. The good part was my mom remarried and my stepdad made sure we had a tract house to live in.

 

[rightwinger]

What do you want done given that was not my question. Should small towns pay what is paid in say New York city where Democrats run the show?

It sounds as if you said NO, pay small towns a lot less.

Read my answer
Small towns can have high costs of living if they are near NYC

 

[jackflash]

Thank you so much Jack for an excellent reply. I am in a small city. 134,800 in fact. I don't notice it cheaper at the grocery store. Fuel for my car is no cheaper than $2.75 but the prevailing cost is at least $2.99. I have lived on 4 Acres of unimproved farmland other than the shack Dad built for all 7 of us. I was shuffled to an uncles cotton land where he and the family lived in 2 Army tents. I agree this sure keeps us strong and willing to live cheaper. The good part was my mom remarried and my stepdad made sure we had a tract house to live in.

With fuel prices that low U must be residing in the state of Idaho or Oklahoma? The nearest big town we have in the general area is Deer Park which has a current population of about 5,000 folks. Deer Park is big enough to have a real grocery store(Yokes) complete with a bakery & full meat dept! Like U said about prices in your area, our prices are comparable to grocery outlets located further south in Spokane(Spo-Can) which is the 2nd biggest city in Washington state. The price for fuel in Deer Park is slightly higher than the $3.35 per gallon found in Spokane @ current. The area surrounding our Deer Park is studded with endless privately owned agricultural farms & within that area are several UNincorporated little towns/communities like Clayton, Elk, Camden, Deer Valley & Milan. Plus there are the lake communities which I would say(not sure here) are incorporated such as the Loon Lake community, Deer Lake community, Elokia Lake community & Diamond Lake community. If Spokane had been located 20 miles more north our town of Deer Park would have never came into existence.

I also got shuffled off after I completed 8th grade & that's how I ended up with my oldest sister & her husband out in Redland Oregon. At least @ Redland I/we had an actual home(not much of one) with a roof that did not leak. Two Army tents like that's the last stronghold before one is sleeping literally beneath the stars! Cotton land's humidity/heat combined with tent living must have been absolutely debilitating. Yeah, that farm/true country living does toughen a guy up for sure!

Take care Robert, till next time!

 

[Robert W]

With fuel prices that low U must be residing in the state of Idaho or Oklahoma? The nearest big town we have in the general area is Deer Park which has a current population of about 5,000 folks. Deer Park is big enough to have a real grocery store(Yokes) complete with a bakery & full meat dept! Like U said about prices in your area, our prices are comparable to grocery outlets located further south in Spokane(Spo-Can) which is the 2nd biggest city in Washington state. The price for fuel in Deer Park is slightly higher than the $3.35 per gallon found in Spokane @ current. The area surrounding our Deer Park is studded with endless privately owned agricultural farms & within that area are several UNincorporated little towns/communities like Clayton, Elk, Camden, Deer Valley & Milan. Plus there are the lake communities which I would say(not sure here) are incorporated such as the Loon Lake community, Deer Lake community, Elokia Lake community & Diamond Lake community. If Spokane had been located 20 miles more north our town of Deer Park would have never came into existence.

I also got shuffled off after I completed 8th grade & that's how I ended up with my oldest sister & her husband out in Redland Oregon. At least @ Redland I/we had an actual home(not much of one) with a roof that did not leak. Two Army tents like that's the last stronghold before one is sleeping literally beneath the stars! Cotton land's humidity/heat combined with tent living must have been absolutely debilitating. Yeah, that farm/true country living does toughen a guy up for sure!

Take care Robert, till next time!

I have been in Washington very little. In 2023 I flew on Alaska Airlines and the jets landed in Seattle going to Kawaii and coming back from that Hawaiian Island.

Mom sent we then children to live with others in her family. Reason, she had just got divorced and her relatives agreed to take we children of 5 kids. We only lived with relatives, me on the cotton farm my uncle was the caretaker of for maybe half the school year. She picked us all up and moved all of us into a small rental home in a small CA town. I have not been to Spokane but would like to see that area. I did leave CA on one trip up highway 5 on the way to Portland. Crossed the river into Washington for several hours.
You guessed right I live several miles from Boise, Idaho.

 

[DGS49]

Businesses pay as little as they can for goods, materials, and services that they require, whether you are talking about plant machinery, cleaning supplies, or general labor.

Why should they do otherwise?

As everyone reading this knows, if you want to make more money then you have to make yourself more valuable to prospective employers...or you could cut the cord and start off on your own.

But that takes balls - something Lefties regardless of gender identification, don't have.

 

[Robert W]

Businesses pay as little as they can for goods, materials, and services that they require, whether you are talking about plant machinery, cleaning supplies, or general labor.

Why should they do otherwise?

As everyone reading this knows, if you want to make more money then you have to make yourself more valuable to prospective employers...or you could cut the cord and start off on your own.

But that takes balls - something Lefties regardless of gender identification, don't have.

I spent much of my life as an employer. I judged workers and paid them according to their production in some operations I created. In sales of Real estate, I paid my beginning agents half of the earned commission since I had to spend a lot of time training them. Agents who needed little training were paid a lot more. They sold more homes is why. I have seen beginning agents spend months prior to them selling a home for a client.When a person agrees to sell property for clients working for a Broker like me, at first they are confused what to do to earn a living. Brokers with a dozen agents just don't have time to walk the new agents through the steps as to how to get clients and how to deal with clients. New agents often believe they already know how it do it. And they suffer as a result.