What are you thinking? While you are complaining about having to live on a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, what are you paying the person who does odd jobs for you? Do you realize he worked ten hours on your yard and you paid him $20 total? Ten hours times $7.25 is $72.50 is it not? You get over three times as much as you paid him and you can't live on it? How is he supposed to buy his food and take the bus? Does he not deserve an occasional luxury? Do you wonder why he quit and took his hard work elsewhere? But you can't afford to pay him as much as you make? Then you should do your own odd jobs.
You say you are having a hard time with your bank account this summer. Will he go ahead and do the work now and get paid later? Say what? Your bank account is messed up for the third straight summer? Maybe you had better transplant your own rose bushes.
You've got this wonderful idea. You have that old trailer that he could really use for his lawn care equipment. It's really just a cart, isn't it? A cart for a man that has no car. But you thought of your own needs, not his. You chose to kill two birds with one stone. You got rid of your storage problem and got your work for free.
Same for the man who wants to unload his tractor as a Christmas gift, but wants him to work for free to pay for it. Gift, or wage? How will he buy food and ride the bus to the next job? But you can't understand why he isn't kissing your feet with gratitude.
The barter system cannot work well in this day of unemployment problems. It could work for middle class individuals trading luxury items for other luxury items. But, the hordes of unemployed need cash for work. They have to pay the same amount for food as you do. How will they pay for their rent?
We need to quit using the desperate who want to work for a living as our personal "dumpees". There may come a day that you and I are the desperate ones. How would you want to be treated?
Do unto others . . .
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