This would have to be a Paul gripe.
Obviously some here have never worked out how much income some of their employees bring into the business or company. For a business to be profitable the employee needs to create six times their wages in most private companies. The public service does not need to make any income, as they are carried by the taxes of the private sector.

Given Green serial number 1405's penchant for earbashing about how good hard-left New Zealand is, this is as good a place as any to recommend that fun-lover conservatives read Tim Blair's "The Nicest Country They Couldn't Wait To Leave" in Quadrant Online (no paywall) 14th. February.

Paul, I'm glad you brought up this example.
Although I think it is very low of you to use the death of innocent people in an insane attempt and exaggerating in desperation to ram home your vacuous points.
Why can't you get it through your left wing head, that a person works at a particular job because that's the best they can hope for, otherwise they would be working somewhere else.
You are being disingenuous and lying by promoting this "slavery" mantra.
And you know it.
Paul, when YOU decide YOU want to start a business, please call in your left leaning, labor voting comrades.
I'll be parked down the road to get in first, when the liquidation sales happens, and it will inevitably happen.
Paul, stop preaching about things you know nothing about.
As a lefty, you are harboring a very unsavoury and distasteful attitude towards those who are creating the employment you and your mates, detest so much.
It's the classic, "shooting yourself in the foot".
The last/worse thing you can do is push up wages, which pushes up costs, which pushes up inflation.
Why don't you and your lot learn to live within your means, instead of chasing your tails, and trying to make unrealistic demands.
Tell your stupid ilk and their offspring to settle on a 3 X 1 house, instead of a two story, un-affordable, 5 X 4 with a pool, 3 car garage and all the other superfluous trimmings that they cannot, afford and, should NOT have.
Which brings me to another associated fall-out of this arrogant extravagance.
If all the females with children looked after their kids instead of their ego's, there would be plenty of jobs available, and any shortages after the men/fathers had been gainfully employed/hired, then and only then should it be possible for the females to take the job.
This PC crap is killing the traditional family structure and it's unity and strength.
No Paul, sorry, but no matter which way you look at it, your/labors way is one of destructive regression, not one of constructive progression.

So Paul thinks our minimum wage, the highest in the world, is slavery. Typical of the garbage we get from green/communists. But Paul does make a couple of valid points, although he didn't mean to.

He tells us that a number of food delivery cyclists have been killed in the inner city suburbs of Sydney, thus he highlights 2 evils. Firstly cyclists should be banned from all public roads, particularly in old suburbs with roads too narrow to accommodate them safely.

In this user pays society it is time cyclists paid for their own tracks, & were never allowed on public roads paid for by the motorist a dozen times over. Their presence puts far too much responsibility on girls busy texting as they drive around.

Secondly he highlights the incompetence of the younger generation, who can't even cook their own meals. Perhaps they are too busy texting, or don't have the attention span to last the cooking time of a frozen meal.

I saw a case recently where tenants were ordered to pay restitution as they had sold the stove out of a flat they were renting. They never used it. I wonder how long it will be until we deliver meals to them, free of charge, to ensure their "quality of life".

Wow, did I just make a joke?

ALTRAV says:

"Although I think it is very low of you to use the death of innocent people in an insane attempt and exaggerating in desperation to ram home your vacuous points".

I'll second that. Apart from the fact that how much people are paid has naught to do with watching where they are going, it's totally insensitive to a dead person and his family. But when did a Green show any sensitivity!

Paul's ideal world is to have everyone working for the Government on equal pay, even if they are producing no nothing. Everyone would be public servants, or slaves to the State. That way no one has feel unequal or produce income because income is a dirty capitalist word. It means we all share equally in the benefits from products produced. No one "owns" the factory, or business or goods produced they belong to the State until its is distributed. Soon we finish up like Venezuela.