Quote:In a free market people are not chained to poverty what keeps people on poverty is a lack of options. Employers would have to compete for good workers the only way to compete would be better wages. Inevitable you will always have some level of poverty but if you look at economic curves poverty in nations closer to free market are better off than anywhere else.


It's not that I deny companies would try and keep wages low it's that I believe in a free market the individual would have more options, competition for employment.

This is where we fundamentally disagree. Yes companies will compete for "good workers" but the need for skilled, qualified workers is far outweighed by the amount of unskilled work that need bodies to fill them and by a massive margin. This is what people are worried about when considering letting the market rule the land. Inevitably you will have a large portion of society that cant get to good jobs because so many people are seeking them . This leads to a huge portion of the population having to take the low paying jobs that pay peanuts because they have to have some income. 

 

This further keeps people locked into poverty because you cant just not take the work even if the going rate doesn't cover rent. That, in essence, is the concern over a total lack of regulation in the market. 

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