Policy Bytes: A Business that runs on low wage workers is a failed business.

Progress is dynamic, scientistic, truly secular, and pragmatic. One of pragmatism's enduring qualities is that it is a way of being realistic, but also allows for realism about things like natural phenomena.

I have said it before. Innovative free enterprise can be excellent and is a hallmark of a truly free society. If your business could not exist without low paid workers, then it is a failed business and a failed business model.

If your business model depends on riding the backs of low paid staff, you are taking perpetual un-repaid loans from the poor, undereducated, and unlucky. That is not a successful business enterprise. It is successful theft under labor extortion, and antisocial. Don't start putting on airs and calling yourself 'elite' because you managed to argy-bargy your low-wage theft-er-prise into profitability.

You're not smart or successful: you're a parasite.

If you cannot develop a business model involving truly clever ideas and innovation - like a smart technology business with patents - then find another occupation, you lazy, not-smart, crook.

If you pay your workers really good living wages well above award, and offer additional assistance and incentives - then you're off the hook and might possibly be considered a success. Maybe. Otherwise - go and get a job!

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