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danaluvsthekings said:It depends. Some businesses decide to pay their employees well to keep them happy and loyal, even though they could still find employees at a lower salary. There's a fast food hamburger chain in California, Nevada, and Arizona, called In-n-Out, that starts its employees at like $9.50 or $10 an hour even though they only have to offer minimum wage. Paying someone $3 an hour more than they'd make at McDonald's or Burger King looks stupid and paying kids that much to flip hamburgers cuts into their profit margins, but they still make a profit and they have happy employees which is good for business.
I'm not saying the NHLPA's stance was right in this whole situation. I'm just trying to say that no one that opens a business is going to be guaranteed a profit and the NHL owners shouldn't be different than any other business. Why should they be entitled to know they're going to make a profit every year when every other type of business knows they need to make smart financial decisions to keep themselves from going belly up?
But if you're only option is flipping burgers, wouldn't you as a happy In-n-Out employee prefer to make $8 an hour as opposed to having In-n-Out go out of business and have to go back to McD's for minimum wage?
If In-n-Out said, I'm losing money hand over fist; we need to make some changes so that you're still paid great, but I stay in business --- would you still not care if he's making money?