World’s richest woman would prefer to pay her miners $2 a day

[Tupac Shakur]

Yah, those immoral Australian workers should be doing everything in their power to demand more compensation :greedisalwaysgood:

I agree.

[Kuciwalker]

Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day

What a retarded argument we hear all the time from the conservative side.

That people are willing to work for 2 bucks a day doesn't prove that this is what they want, merely that resources are scarce.

Fallacy of equivocation. Specifically, you are equivocating over different senses of the word 'want' (one is relative, the other absolute).

[Hauldren Collider]

I want to be king of the world and have my own death star, but I'll settle for a successful career in a computer science-related field.

[DaShi]

I want you to work for $2/month as my code-monkey.

[Fake Boris]

Fallacy of equivocation. Specifically, you are equivocating over different senses of the word 'want' (one is relative, the other absolute).

What workers want also scales on the "relative" side.

People like you love to obfuscate the second point (resources are scarce) to funnel "free will" in discussions of market behavior.

[Kuciwalker]

WTF does "free will" have to do with this?

[Fake Boris]

WTF does "free will" have to do with this?

Not much, I was on a tangent already, and you nurtured it further.

[regexcellent]

I want you to work for $2/month as my code-monkey.

You'd better be offering a pretty ****ing amazing benefits package then.

[dannubis]

Yes, greed should only apply to you, not the workers.

[Ben Kenobi]

World's richest woman should then just actually do what she says and hire Africans to mine instead.

This. Methinks that productivity plays a figure. I'm sure that if it were actually profitable to open mines in africa and hire these 2 dollar a day workers that she would have already done so.

Also if she can find workers in Australia willing to work for her wages, good on her.

[Hauldren Collider]

You'd better be offering a pretty ****ing amazing benefits package then.

If he wants to hire someone with my talents, definitely. I have never had much difficulty finding work.

[DaShi]

Fine, I'll just go with Chinese coders for $3/month. I hope we can make our bottom line this year. Better petition Congress for subsidies.

[Kidlicious]

She couldn't do the work. She's probably too lazy. But she will talk about people who will do the work.

[molly bloom]

African miners would prefer to work for $2 a day to subsistence farming or whatever it is they are doing now.

I'm hugely impressed by your in depth knowledge of Africa, Africans and African miners in particular. When was it you lived there in the mining camps in South Africa ? Are you now fluent in Xhosa ? Bet you do a nifty line in gum boot dancing.

[molly bloom]

This is incoherent. Perhaps you can elaborate on what the word "pers" means? Did you mean "peers"? And the plural second person possessive in English is "their", which is frequently confused with the homophonic adverb "there", but the difference is crucial.

Excellent work from the person who doesn't seem to understand the use of the word 'literally' and makes up his own definition for 'union'. Doubt if the O.E.D. is looking to hire you any time soon. But you can, literally, always try.