I ran across a couple quick posts that shed some light on why people such as myself maintain blogs. I have purposely not evaluated the cost / benefit of maintaining this blog, or how I would ever try to monetize this (though feel free to support my advertisers!).
Sarah Peck had a post worth noting – that its not about the number of viewers -in fact perhaps in my case its best that readership stays small.
And James Clear also had an interesting post about establishing a writing schedule, and not waiting for inspiration. I think its a great point – too often I wait for inspiration – whereas I should just hunker down and not be afraid to create junk if I need to.
Writing for me is an ongoing learning process. This blog has helped me frame thoughts and think about things differently. And thanks to the small readership, I have the luxury of posting whatever quality of content I have in a given week. No editors or deadlines. What else could a writer hope for?
If you raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour you are saying that $31,200 per year is the floor for poverty.
In that case, I expect my social security check to be raised to the same level. My wife also gets social security. My niece, a college graduate, just took a job at $25 per hour. The janitor makes minimum wage. Now he is getting a 61% raise and she isn’t. How is that fair? Where is the equity?
Jesus said, “The poor will always be with you.” When I started working I was paid minimum wage. I needed two jobs and three roommates to make ends meet. I climbed out of poverty by hard work and initiative.
The government’s role in business is to protect the public. In some cases this is very good, look at consumer protection. In every other instance government will ruin business. That is why I believe in laissez faire. Having worked in government, I know that politicians know nothing about business. How could any business buy Big Bertha without a warranty? How about floating bridge pontoons that leak? Why do we have a toll bridge without a toll booth?
If you want to correct wage imbalance attack the CEO to worker imbalance. 1982 it was 42:1 in 2012 it is 354:1. Tax the difference or return it to the stockholders.