Talk:Minimum-wage job

Neutral point of view
Even with the citations that have been added, this article still presents a one-sided view of the topic. An encyclopedia needs to present more balanced view. For example, why do companies pay workers the minimum wage? There has not been an attempt to address both perspectives on this issue. Accurizer 12:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

think about this now
You're asking for citations for the business perspective, yes?

Managers and business-owners being humans, whenever they do something that they know they should feel guilty about, they will
 * keep quiet about it
 * attempt to censor the facts
 * angrily deny accountability
 * hire someone to put out propaganda to justify whatever they did

I can put links in really only for the last item, which would be a disservice to the reader.

It's like asking for both sides of the slavery issue: pro and con. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.253.57.234 (talk • contribs)


 * Please see Wikipedia's NPOV policy, which states, "The policy requires that, where there are or have been conflicting views, these should be presented fairly, but not asserted. All significant points of view are presented, not just the most popular one. It should not be asserted that the most popular view or some sort of intermediate view among the different views is the correct one. Readers are left to form their own opinions." NPOV requires views to be represented without bias. Competing views are to be presented with a consistently positive, sympathetic tone. Equating minimum wage jobs to slavery (and using bold text) is certainly unbalanced and possibly inflamatory. If you find that you are not able to present both sides of an issue, it is likely that you are too close to the subject and should take a step back. Other editors will take up the work. Accurizer 14:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)


 * For an example, see the article Minimum wage, which does a fairly good job of presenting both sides of the argument. Indeed, a merger of this article with Minimum wage seems warranted and I have proposed it. Accurizer 14:19, 17 May 2006 (UTC)