• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    We have minimum wage because we have decided it’s better to force some people to zero in order that others may have a little more.

    Well, also because people refuse to process the logic on that, because acknowledging what I just said would cause them to reconsider their position.

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      22 days ago

      I can’t imagine the series of incidents in your life that led you to draw such a wrong conclusion and yet call it logic.

      You’ve really never heard the phrase “race to the bottom”?

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        21 days ago

        I’ve heard the phrase, yes. I don’t base my philosophy on whether clever-sounding phrases exist.

        There’s no evidence to suggest that lack of a minimum wage results in everyone earning essentially zero wages, which is all I can imagine that phrase to mean.

        There is, however, evidence that minimum wages lead to unemployment. There’s also evidence to suggest unemployment is a horrible state to exist in.