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A problem with that is people will be desperate enough for those now higher-paying jobs that they'll spend hours commuting from distant cheaper places. All that
by averagewall 9y ago
A problem with that is people will be desperate enough for those now higher-paying jobs that they'll spend hours commuting from distant cheaper places. All that time spent commuting is equivalent to getting a lower hourly wage. We've already figured out that having no minimum wage lets desperate people suffer worse.
That's the argument against "let the market solve it" as I've heard it applied to London. Not sure if it's actually valid or not.
- Consultant32452 9y ago>A problem with that is people will be desperate enough for those now higher-paying jobs that they'll spend hours commuting from distant cheaper places. All that time spent commuting is equivalent to getting a lower hourly wage. A lower hourly wage which may still result in a net increase in quality of life, right? Because they live in a lower cost of living area. But surely not everyone would commute that distance. >We've already figured out that having no minimum wage lets desperate people suffer worse. That's certainly not what I've figured out. What I've figured out is that we put poor people into low income housing that unsurprisingly has no-choice crappy public schools and then we use the minimum wage to force employers to prejudice against the very people in the low income housing we forced into an education system that doesn't give them the skills/education necessary to earn a decent living. Minimum wage, low income housing, and no-choice public schooling is the holy trinity of liberal policies that harms poor people, and especially minorities, over the long term.