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The alternative for many unskilled people would be to be unemployed and having even less income, would that be more or less inhumane?
by patrickaljord 9y ago
The alternative for many unskilled people would be to be unemployed and having even less income, would that be more or less inhumane?
- willvarfar 9y agoThe people working for Foodora have the same qualifications. That's what the article is all about.
- jerguismi 9y agoNot everyone can get a job at foodora. They clearly invest to those employees that they choose.
- manmal 9y agoNot sure about that - might be that Foodora would not hire people who cannot speak Swedish well enough. Also, Uber had no cardio/speed test. It seems that everybody with a clean criminal record can apply at Uber, but Foodora is more restrictive. Maybe like Play Store vs App Store.
- bnegreve 9y agoThat would not be sustainable and would probably lead to some kind of uprising.
- argonaut 9y agoThis is essentially an argument against having a minimum wage in general (and more broadly, certain labor regulations). It's a complex issue that we could argue about for pages and pages of comments, but suffice to say the vast majority of the population in the US, let alone Sweden, disagree with you. Which is that in some cases it is better to have some unemployed people and some (ideally a lot more) people earning a good wage, versus both groups earning a crappy wage. Combined with a welfare system.
- kalleboo 9y agoSweden doesn't have a minimum wage. It has very strong unions instead.
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- eru 9y agoAnd most economists agree with the grandfather comment..
- jellicle 9y agoNot at all, no. Throughout the world, unemployment is correlated with the local minimum wage - as the minimum wage increases, unemployment decreases. Somalia (no minimum wage) has an unemployment rate of over 60%. Increasing the minimum wage in US states produces no negative employment effects. There are, of course, paid professional conservative economists who will tell you whatever their bosses want them to in support of pro-billionaire economic policies.
- patrickaljord 9y ago> Increasing the minimum wage in US states produces no negative employment effects. Why not increase it to $500 an hour then? When you increase the price of cigarettes, people buy less cigarettes, when you increase the price of cars, people buy less of it. What do you think happens when you increase the price of labor and why do you think it has magic powers that makes it avoid these basic laws of economics? What about people who prefer to work for Uber for $4 per hour rather than stay unemployed? Would you tell them "Sorry but this is inhumane, I can't let you do that to yourself and I'm ready to vote laws to forbid you to do as you please with your free time and send people like you to jail if they persist"? Do you know better than they do what's best for them and how they can use their own body? Doesn't that make you an authoritarian?
- gnaritas 9y ago
- the_mitsuhiko 9y agoIn Many European countries the state covers when you don't earn enough. So it's against the interest of tax payers for companies to offer badly paid jobs if that means it becomes a race to the bottom.
- Noos 9y agoAt that wage you are unemployed. You cannot afford anything at an effective rate of $5 an hour. All you are doing is making someone else richer.