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It's not surprising that a conservative think tank released a study against the minimum wage. There are also arguments and studies concluding that the minimum
by unclebucknasty 11y ago
It's not surprising that a conservative think tank released a study against the minimum wage.
There are also arguments and studies concluding that the minimum wage ultimately creates jobs.
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoThe conservative government here in the UK has put the minimum wage on a steep upward trajectory. This is not a conservative vs left-wing (or liberal as you like to call it) thing. The more important distinction is between those who keep holding on to paid work as the main or only moral basis for deserved income and the other camp that tries to move away from that principle. There are conservative, left-leaning and libertarian people on either side of the debate.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoThat may be true in the UK, but here in the States it is overwhelmingly a left-vs-right debate.
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoWhat's interesting is that those who ascribe some sort of moral (or maybe just sentimental) value to being in work are currently a majority on the left and on the right. That goes for the US as well as for Britain.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoTrue, which is why I find it morally bankrupt for people who subscribe to that belief to then feel no moral obligation to pay a living wage.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoYou must be aware that "conservative" means something somewhat different in the US compared to the rest of the world. I agree that it's rather silly and exceptionalist of us, but the fact remains that Americans who identify as conservative are very likely to want to reduce public support.
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoI am aware of that, but I find it interesting that being for or against basic income is not an ideological constant to the same extent as many other policies.
- soared 11y agoWould slowly increasing minimum wage act as a slow (not exact) transition to basic income?
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoHow would it do that?