You seem to misunderstand what I am saying. I have never said that a company needs to retain anyone. Quite the opposite.

So let’s take your example and let's say you're the owner of a fishing company. I run your boats, but I don't make enough money for you to pay me a living wage. Because you are the business owner, you can fire me and hire someone else. If the next person doesn't catch enough fish, you can fire that person too and hire a better fisherman. If you've hired 10 people and you've had to fire them all because it's not working out, you should think about whether your business is actually capable of being profitable. If your business is not able to generate enough revenue for you to pay your employees properly, then your business is shit. That was one of the first things I said to you in our conversation. If your business is not profitable enough to pay your employees properly, then you are essentially a ghost company that relies on exploiting people. Either you are profitable enough or you are not. You always have the option to go fishing yourself.

But anyway. I know you won’t agree with me. And I don’t really care. Like Satoshi said it so beautifully: “If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you.”

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Sure, if a business owner has unrealistic expectations then he will eventually go out of business. But people who willingly agree to work at a certain rate of pay, are not being exploited. You are free to quit at any time just like your employer is free to fire you at any time. It's a voluntary & mutually beneficial exchange.

If you want businesses to be required to meet some standard of pay independent of employee performance then you are creating a situation where life will be considerably worse for the poorest & least skilled people, because it will be economically impossible to hire them to do anything. People take low paying jobs because it's the best they can get & low pay is better than no pay.