With all due respect bro- your comment just means you haven't read and understood the subject matter. Please read the entirety of the Hyperwage Theory before jumping to conclusion. All your questions and/or doubts will be answered.
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Hyperwage is a *****'s economic theory. Even an average person who has no background in economics can easily detect the idiocy of such theory.
If a businessman radically increases the wage of his maid, considering it is due to the labor policy of the government that becomes a strict national wage law, do you think that businessman will not balance his sheets by increasing the price of goods or services he sells or renders?
It will be the same story--the maid will now have an increased financial resources to spend on pricier goods or services. Different amount but the same reality.
Some may say that the government can enact a price cap law that will prohibit the businessman to raise the prices of his goods or services, but still that will not work. Remember the basic objective of entrepreneurship is to gain, not to lose, and nobody puts up a business just to break even.
If the businessman loses, he will close down his store or factory. What will happen then to his workers? They will be jobless and nobody will hire them because the minimum wage is just to high. Joblessness then will definitely increase.
The businessman's workers won't be the only losers. The rice farmers or coconut producers, granting the businessman sells rice or processes coconut oil, will also suffer. The prices of their rice and coconut will go down. The farm owners will be bankrupt and leave agriculture altogether to become wage earners, hoping they will be hired for salaried jobs.
This will be the end of agriculture, a major industry in our country, and rural economy. Sudden migration from rural to urban will happen. You know what will come next: panic buying, hoarding, overpricing, consumer exploitation, business deception, less supply, more demand, more jobless, less jobs, hunger, protest, anarchy. Aren't you scared yet? I am.
It's good for the maid because the businessman cannot fire her since his family needs her badly, but the rest will be harshly affected. That will not last though. It is innate to human beings to adapt for survival. When the businessman learns to push the buttons on the rice cooker and washing machine, having a maid will become a luxury.
Now change the reality of the household dynamics with that of the corporate one. The maid is now an accountant. Think of firing and downsizing and yes, overworking.
A manager, human resources specialist, and a receptionist will get pink slips, and the accountant will do their jobs in addition to doing accounting. Do you think the accountant will not protest and quit? That will be another way of creating joblessness by enslaving the salaried workers.
Now go back to the maid. Do you think she won't complain if she has to water the plants, wash the cars, and take care of the obnoxious kids running around in addition to his usual job of cooking, cleaning, washing the laundry, etc.? She has no choice since the businessman just fires the gardener, the driver, and the nanny, so he can afford to pay her.
The maid will eventually quit or file a case against the businessman for slavery or exploitation. The government will now pass a law against illegal servitude. At last, no more jobs for the countless maids. The businessman will downsize his lifestyle-- no garden, just one car, smaller house, and a lot of electric appliances. He no longer needs the maid
Do you know what will happen next? The maid will turn tricks. Maybe one hundred bucks for a blow job. Even prostitutes will suffer, and unfortunately they can't complain. Their line of work is not protected by the national wage law or the law on illegal servitude.
Now the question: Currently ours is a country of maids, do we want to turn it into a country of prostitutes? Indeed, hyperwage theory is crazy and scary.
kanus-a pa kaha na mahitabo dri sa ato.. naa naman untay minimum karon pero para nako gamay ra gihapon labi na kung pamilyado naka...
Hyperwage is a *****'s economic theory. Even an average person who has no background in economics can easily detect the idiocy of such theory.
If a businessman radically increases the wage of his maid, considering it is due to the labor policy of the government that becomes a strict national wage law, do you think that businessman will not balance his sheets by increasing the price of goods or services he sells or renders?
It will be the same story--the maid will now have an increased financial resources to spend on pricier goods or services. Different amount but the same reality.
Some may say that the government can enact a price cap law that will prohibit the businessman to raise the prices of his goods or services, but still that will not work. Remember the basic objective of entrepreneurship is to gain, not to lose, and nobody puts up a business just to break even.
If the businessman loses, he will close down his store or factory. What will happen then to his workers? They will be jobless and nobody will hire them because the minimum wage is just to high. Joblessness then will definitely increase.
The businessman's workers won't be the only losers. The rice farmers or coconut producers, granting the businessman sells rice or processes coconut oil, will also suffer. The prices of their rice and coconut will go down. The farm owners will be bankrupt and leave agriculture altogether to become wage earners, hoping they will be hired for salaried jobs.
This will be the end of agriculture, a major industry in our country, and rural economy. Sudden migration from rural to urban will happen. You know what will come next: panic buying, hoarding, overpricing, consumer exploitation, business deception, less supply, more demand, more jobless, less jobs, hunger, protest, anarchy. Aren't you scared yet? I am.
It's good for the maid because the businessman cannot fire her since his family needs her badly, but the rest will be harshly affected. That will not last though. It is innate to human beings to adapt for survival. When the businessman learns to push the buttons on the rice cooker and the washing machine, having a maid will become a luxury.
Now change the reality of the household dynamics with that of the corporate one. The maid is now an accountant. Think of firing and downsizing and yes, overworking.
A manager, human resources specialist, and a receptionist will get pink slips, and the accountant will do their jobs in addition to doing accounting. Do you think the accountant will not protest and quit? That will be another way of creating joblessness by enslaving the salaried workers.
Now go back to the maid. Do you think she won't complain if she has to water the plants, wash the cars, and take care of the obnoxious kids running around in addition to his usual job of cooking, cleaning, washing the laundry, etc.? She has no choice since the businessman just fires the gardener, the driver, and the nanny, so he can afford to pay her.
The maid will eventually quit or file a case against the businessman for slavery or exploitation. The government will now pass a law against illegal servitude. At last, no more jobs for the countless maids. The businessman will downsize his lifestyle-- no garden, just one car, smaller house, and a lot of electric appliances. He no longer needs the maid
Do you know what will happen next? The maid will turn tricks. Maybe one hundred bucks for a blow job. Even prostitutes will suffer, and unfortunately they can't complain. Their line of work is not protected by the national wage law or the law on illegal servitude.
Now the question: Currently ours is a country of maids, do we want to turn it into a country of prostitutes? Indeed, hyperwage theory is crazy and scary.
imho, even if you pay every Juan 10 times the salary they're getting now, unless we start buying and really patronizing our own products, nothing significant will come out of this.
if HWT will be implemented, can it solved the unemployment problem in our country?
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