News article: New WestJet and Air Canada fees come with too much baggage, by Mary-Jane Bennett, financial post.com

It is so  WestJet and Air Canada can both charge passengers extra money on their luggages and state they are innocent, and consumers “pushed” them to do so. The biggest cost for an airline is fuel, and as the article states, the passengers’ massive over-heavy luggage costs the too much, and even makes them cannot even sustain their “cheap-cost culture”. I do not debt the enormous cost of a flight, but charging extra fees is not better than simply add the cost to the ticket price. First, as a transportation company, considers about consumers “extra weight” is one of its responsibility. Why don’t they charge people’s ticket by their weight as well? Then thinner people pays less and heavier people pay more. Isn’t that sound fair? The luggage costs too much should not be paid by passengers. Additionally, as long as people need to pay for luggage, they will be willing to take much heavier suitcases than they were taking before. “I’m going to pay the same amount of money. Why don’t I take more?” That is reasonable and this in contrast is just in the opposite of what the airline’s objective to take less luggage each flight.

The original post: Why do the younger workers have low salaries? by Chenchen Wu

As an undergraduate student, I am looking for part-time job these days, and relatively low salary is truly a concern of me, and actually frustrate me somehow. Nevertheless, after reading Wu’s points of reasonable low salaries for younger workers, I think the low payment is not caused by external reasons only, on the other hand, this phenomenon is ordinary and usual because of the internal limitations.

To begin with, referring to booming globalization, foreign workers may affect the labour market a lot, but not the higher-educated level. Since international students and domestic students share fairly the education quality, besides, local has better communication basis and cultural backgrounds which directly lead to better employers’ favor. Whereas, it does not imply the employers are willing to pay higher cost. Due to young employees have barely work experience, and know theoretical knowledge better than empirical skills, they do not create enough value to gain better paid.

Besides, the higher education somehow limits the young a lot. Through the last several decades, people start working at increasingly older age. More people like to pursue academic success than practical jobs. Less young do part-time job, and take the heavy burden of study to universities. It is a good thing for individuals personal evaluation, and social future development, while not really beneficial for employers. It does not make sense to pay these ignorant people who only memorize the terminologies in textbook.

So, conclusively, government restricts the immigration has noting to do with improving young’s salaries, nonetheless, it should encourage teenagers to participate more in extracurricular activities including part-time job and volunteering works.