lesson. his campaign doesn t generate revenue. there is a whole lot more that businesses would have to deal with. more overhead, more insurance. imagine a real life business trying to sell a product. sandra: these union members were demanding the $15 wage the campaign responded and said we re paying competitive market rates. we re paying what other campaigns are paying. right. sandra: it sounds like a capitalist argument. what the market would bear. $15 by the way, because the house passed it doesn t mean oats a good idea or it would become law. we know $15 an hour is a serious burden and some parts of the country impossible burden and it will mean people lose their jobs. at a minimum million else of people lose their jobs. to keep your job on the campaign you have to cut back your hours. you won t get overtime and may not have a job. they may not be able to keep as
could work over the long time we could win as a company by doing this. this is a capitalist solution to a socialist problem. there s an emotional reaction. benevolence and sort of corporate infrastructure don t usually go hand in hand. i m sure it was moving to talk to people after you said this. yeah. we ve always paid competitive market rates. and so for somebody that s answering the phones helping out our clients, a very important person a competitive market rate for them might be $40,000 a year. for me a competitive market rate is a million dollars a year. the difference between those two just seemed ridiculous. now, i don t think it works for me to always pay myself way below market rate. but someday, i m going to retire and somebody else is going to step in and i want to be able to pay them. but temporarily, i think i can do this and i think we can succeed as a company once our profit recovers to where it s at my pay will go back up and we ll have this new minimum