(04-05-2019 11:46 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I do think that Dems are often guilty of not considering the owner/capital perspective sufficiently,

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Quote:while Reps are often guilty of not considering the labor perspective sufficiently.

Not on board with this entirely. Reps typically take the tack of 'pay a position what the value proposition is *for the position*'.

Dems typically view this as 'pay a living wage'.

They are radically different perspectives. And you would be correct in saying that Reps *are* guilty of not considering the labor perspective of Democrats. (and the jury would be out on whether there is a 'guilt' associated with this.

The entire difference can be boiled down as, crudely:

Reps consider the value proposition of the labor to be the controlling factor of what that labor is paid/worth --- across all levels of labor-worth.

Dems consider the value proposition of the labor to be what government deems to be the value proposition. At the lower levels the value proposition is deemed to be the minimum wage as a de facto standard, regardless of the commercial markets for that labor. At higher levels, they believe is a societal bad for such a disparity, and tend to use the power of social message to berate that delta, and to use the power of government through taxation policy to actively decrease that delta.