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So I'm going to tie this example into my rant above......
Scenario 1
A waiter or waitress making $2.75/hr does their job extremely well and they get a 20 - 25% tip. They do a mediocre job, they get 15%. They do a horrible job and they get 10%... or maybe nothing. Now granted they can get rewarded or penalized immediately for the quality of their work but they have a choice on how well they do their job.
Scenario 2
A guy working at RV Manufacturer XYZ in his 20's making $13/hr and doing hard work. He does a crappy job because its hard work.... he hates it.... and he feels he's not being paid enough. He may even show up late every day or call in sick regularly or just not show up some days.
Another guy in his 20's on the same line making the same wage actually works hard.... takes pride in his work and does it very well..... he documents the quality of his work (pictures, notes, reviews, etc.).... he's the first to show up each day and the last to leave. Then after 6 months or a year he eventually goes to market himself to his manager for a better position and better pay. Or if his management and company are crappy and don't care about his work, he takes examples of his work quality to other companies along with his record of showing up on time and not missing days. He gets a better job with another RV company.... or maybe even a company in a different industry..... he gets paid more. Then the process repeats itself.... and one day he finds himself as a senior manager running his own line and he is making $100K/yr.
If more people behaved the way the second guy did, the quality of the product coming off the line would be pretty decent.... regardless of what the workers earned or what you paid for the product.
Now in Scenario 2 a good company would need to find ways to keep those good employees, which would mean paying them more and giving them better jobs to keep from losing them. But a good company also finds ways to offset the costs of higher wages by finding ways to reduce other costs and improve efficiencies so they don't have to pass 100% of the increased costs onto the consumer. Will the price of the product have to go up? Sure it will. Does the price need to increase 25% if ages go up 25%? Not necessarily.
The companies that don't care about their workers or quality products eventually die off.... they go out of business or they get bought up by a competitor.
But if more people are taught early in life about the value of hard work, doing their best job at all times and personal responsibility for making a better life for themselves, then a lot of problems we have today start to fade away.
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