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Why would being a socialist mean that he is biased in favor of minimum wage? In no way is minimum wage a requisite for socialism. Plenty of social democratic
by namlem 9y ago
Why would being a socialist mean that he is biased in favor of minimum wage? In no way is minimum wage a requisite for socialism. Plenty of social democratic countries (not technically socialism, I know) have no minimum wage because they have a system of organized labor that renders it unnecessary.
- tanderson92 9y agoThe GP means that since the author is not literally being paid by capital for a capitalist's desired outcome (e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-more-than-thousand-bucks-hour-peddling-mega-mergers https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-mor...) their research is biased and conclusions suspect.