Trebuie ieşit din ipocrizia că "dacă critici capitalismul, atunci eşti socialist (stângist, comunist, fascist, anarhist...)". Da, destul cu tabuurile sau această zonă va fi atacată (şi este) de pescuitorii în ape tulburi. Nu c-ar fi vreun moment "ameninţat capitalismul" (nu, ei nu vor asta: vor doar poziţia de putere, obţinută prin propagandă): nu oare FSN (ca atare, apoi prin FDSN/PDSR/PSD şi PD/PDL) a distrus cel mai mult (să nu uităm de PnL...) industria şi economia românească, şi odată cu ele peste PATRU milioane de locuri de muncă ? Partide... "social-democrate" (se fereau ca dracul de tămâie să rostească "la intern" numele doctrinei de partid - cea socialistă -, însă la extern participau la evenimente ale Internaţionalei Socialiste sau ale socialiştilor europeni).
The Unz Review (Capitalismul şi salariul minim: "Eu am ce-mi trebuie, ia mai dă-te-n...")
Capitalism and the Minimum Wage: “I Got Mine, Screw You."
To understand the arguments of capitalists against the minimum wage, follow the money. In all the thickets of pious reasoning about the merits of capitalism and the market, and of freedom of contract, and of allowing this marvelous mechanism to work its magic, and of what Adam Smith said, the key is the dollar. The rest is fraud. Carefully ignored is the question that will be crucial in coming decades: What to do about an ever-increasing number of people for whom there is no work.
There is of course much hypocrisy in the theoretical edifice. For example, businessmen arguer that the minimum wage constitutes intolerable interference by the government in the conduct of business - meanwhile sending armies of lobbyists to Washington to make the government interfere in the conduct of business. In fact capitalists have no objection to federal meddling. They just want it to be such meddling as puts more money in their pockets. Nothing more. Ever.
In like fashion they say that they want to protect the worker’s freedom—yes, his freedom, such is the capitalist’s benevolence, the worker’s freedom–to sell his labor at a mutually agreed price. Curiously, in practice this means the employer’s freedom to push wages as close to starvation as he can get away with. This miraculous congruence of high principle with low profit is among the wonders of the universe.