Re: Risk Homeostasis - Drivers and Cyclists

"Kevan Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:00:00 GMT, "Mark Leuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from
> Comcast Online wrote:
>
> >The minimum wage was never created for people to live on, it was created
to
> >simply be a minimum wage ...
>
> And companies would make every job minimum wage or less to increase profit
if
> they could get away with it. That's why unions are so important. One
person
> can't fight a company over wages, but lots of people together can.

I never cared for unions, the biggest problem is was I could work (and did)
as hard as I wanted to yet the person next to me did little, called in sick
much of the time and STILL made as much as I did. It is much like socialism
in that in theory it should work but in reality it doesn't. The hard worker
will end up defaulting to reducing work because no incentive exists to work
harder.