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Well, it does… Just not in the way you think. It prioritizes how much labor they can exploit from you before you quit. Or form a union.
The doesn’t account for, of course, all of the money they spend on lawyers to weasel their way around the law. Actually paying their employees a living wage would cost not only much less than that, but it would provide them greater profits as well.
They’re not doing it because it really makes business sense. That’s just an excuse. They’re doing it to be fascist and cruel. Because that’s what fascists are: cruel.
I mean yeah of course. That's exactly how it works. And here in the South good luck with having a good union.
Thankfully, a totally normal part of my trade is self-employment.
Oh FFS, don't be silly. They're fucking us exactly because it does make sense on paper. They don't have these cruel, fascist notions. They simply don't care as long as Excel tells them they're coming out ahead.
Any reputable workplace study shows, inconclusively, that happy employees are the most productive employees. Collectively, that makes a huge difference in the companies bottom line. If the company spends more money, just so they can squeeze every last iota of work out of an employee and pay them as absolutely little as possible without them quitting, that actually cost more money in the long run than just paying their employees wage.
But, philosophically, the executives are psychopathic, fascist, assholes, so they would rather lose some money as long as they continue being cruel, rather than pay anyone a living wage and make more money.
That's a very homo economicus view that's fallen out of favor since the 1990s. Firms make deeply irrational and damaging decisions based on the irrational notions of the decision-makers. As long as those irrational notions are not sufficiently damaging to sink the business in competition with other businesses, they can persist indefinitely.
That is a cruel fascist notion, they literally function on dehumanizing people