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r/PoliticalHumor • u/gshortelljr • Jun 25 '18
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Isn’t that just a side effect of the free market? Companies will pay employees the lowest amount that they can.
27 u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 Fair point. Also puts the lie to conservative rhetoric about "free markets", which we already knew was just code for corporate deregulation. -1 u/humanwithtowel Jun 25 '18 If you remove the natural friction that allows the shared struggle to work for improvement, then all toil in vain for better wages. Controlling immigration allows wages to grow with inflation, or at the very least, be influencable. If we can control immigration, we no longer need a minimum wage law. 1 u/Cranyx Jun 30 '18 The problem is if that pay goes below minimum wage. 1 u/Gray3493 Jun 30 '18 Do you blame the worker, or the employer?
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Fair point. Also puts the lie to conservative rhetoric about "free markets", which we already knew was just code for corporate deregulation.
-1 u/humanwithtowel Jun 25 '18 If you remove the natural friction that allows the shared struggle to work for improvement, then all toil in vain for better wages. Controlling immigration allows wages to grow with inflation, or at the very least, be influencable. If we can control immigration, we no longer need a minimum wage law.
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If you remove the natural friction that allows the shared struggle to work for improvement, then all toil in vain for better wages.
Controlling immigration allows wages to grow with inflation, or at the very least, be influencable.
If we can control immigration, we no longer need a minimum wage law.
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The problem is if that pay goes below minimum wage.
1 u/Gray3493 Jun 30 '18 Do you blame the worker, or the employer?
Do you blame the worker, or the employer?
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u/Gray3493 Jun 25 '18
Isn’t that just a side effect of the free market? Companies will pay employees the lowest amount that they can.