Welfare, Unemployment Compensation, The Minimum Wage A. The Business Party Line . The media attack high welfare payments, arguing that they are against the interest of all taxpayers, especially of working people, who pay most taxes. So, they say, workers should oppose high welfare payments. But Not You. Media corporations are large employers of labor.
Employers make more profit if workers do the same work for lower wages.
The lower the welfare payments, the cheaper the labor, the more profit for employers. The higher the welfare payments, the higher the wages employers will have to pay to attract someone off welfare onto the job rolls, or to keep them there. This is an example of a conflict of interest between employers and employees. It is also an example of a conflict of interest between the media and its audience . Most of this audience are employees, not employers.