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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Rarebird who wrote (1267938)10/9/2020 8:03:40 PM
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Rarebird,
Are you referring to the rise in minimum wages to $15 an hour in some States? That is just a matter of decency, getting people off slave labor. And you are blaming that on liberal economic policies? Shame on you.
Yes, I am referring to the $15/hour "living wage," among many other liberal labor policies like AB5 here in California.

That is not "slave labor." No one is forced into a job that pays less than $15/hour.

But by setting that as the arbitrary minimum, you are making it illegal to create any job that isn't worth that amount to the employer.

You think you're raising the value of labor that way, but you really aren't. All you're doing is telling those who couldn't produce more than $15/hour worth of labor that they are now out of a job. Or you're telling them to work fewer hours while producing the same amount of worth.

That's how the free market works. Those additional labor costs have to be made up for. Either prices have to rise, thereby increasing the cost of living, or hours have to be cut, or workers have to be laid off.

All because you think any job that doesn't support the proverbial "single mother of two" shouldn't exist.

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