RE: "Interesting. Why not?"
The gene pool is affected by reproductive success. Human competition, ranging from economic to warfare, usually does not result in the victor reproducing and the vanquished, not. Therefore, even if inherited traits contributed to the victory, the gene pool is not likely to have an increase of those traits.
RE: "True, but minimum wage jobs are by definition for the minimally qualified worker."
WRONG! Wages are determined by supply and demand, not worker's qualifications. You may be qualified to be a software engineer, but if those jobs are sent overseas to a lower wage labor pool, you may be required to take a minimum wage retail clerks job.
RE: "We will always need artists, restauranteurs, carpenters, carpet salesmen, etc. And I only hope and pray that a free and competitive market will always determine their relative wage differentials.
In a " free and competitive market" a surplus of labor drives wages down to below subsistence levels until death eliminates the surplus.
RE: "situations...individuals who are stuck in low paying jobs?"
Free trade has exported and will continue to export what were good paying jobs. I am prepared to the use the graduated income tax system to provide medical care, housing and food subsidies, child care, aged care, and children's higher education for people "stuck in low paying jobs." I want to allow all hardworking people the opportunity to achieve a decent life for themselves and their families. |
