Thursday, August 2, 2007

$ One Dollar an Hour

... Seeing the farmers unable to free themselves from the chains of marketing boards, I was thinking that it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone publicly offered a job paying $1/hr... refusing to recognise the right of government to force a minimum wage, and refusing to submit government insurance or pension payments. It would not be a concealed "under the table" job, but an open, honest agreement between two individuals to exchange labour for wages- independent of state intervention.
... Would the employer be arrested, brought before the courts, and then fined? What if he refused to pay the fine, and again publicly offered employment on the same terms?
... When gardening, it is futile to pull out one weed, and then wait a year before pulling out another. It is more effective to pull out all the weeds at one time.

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