> Further my point is not to discuss the problem but the > solution whatever the percentage is (I was just curious > as to what people's experience was). I'm suggesting the > solution is not minimum wage or welfare, but education.
This solution has the same problem I described before... Natural market forces will eliminate any benefit to receiving higher education and thus, you'll end up with a whole ton of people who are well educated but scrubbing toilets because there's too much competition for better jobs. Meanwhile somebody's paying for janitors to have college degrees and jobs that used to be hard to fill are devalued by increased supply of viable candidates. So it's actually more likely to lower the wages of middle-class people than to raise the wages of people at the bottom. > Most high school graduates ARE NOT AWARE that > car and home loans cost you more than the asset's > price. That's a massive failure. I don't disagree. > Then there's the process of getting people from high > school into the work force. Right now that path is > through college but we need to short circuit that. > I'm not saying that all poor people are lazy, I'm > suggesting some might be and wondering what the > group consensus on the percentage is. Overall, > though, what's the solution to poverty? I don't > throwing money at it via a minimum wage is it. > That's just a failure of creativity. I don't disagree with that either... but I don't believe better education (although I'm all for it) is a solution to poverty... It's certainly a solution to people being ignorant of certain things (quality of education being relative -- our educational system blatantly ignores a number of things I consider fundamental) I don't believe it will ever be a solution to poverty, particularly in a capitalist system. In a capitalist system, better education if anything will just help the people who are poor understand better why they have such a hard time advancing, since they're in competition with everyone else, many of whom have advantages over them. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get help! RoboHelp http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=58 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:174928 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
