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> Isn't it a contradiction to say it's below market rate when the market determined that the wage being paid is fair? Circular logic / begging the question. Th
by eevilspock 9y ago
> Isn't it a contradiction to say it's below market rate when the market determined that the wage being paid is fair?
Circular logic / begging the question. The crux of the debate is whether the free-market is a good arbiter of fairness.
> Teen/single mother pregnancy is the best predictor of poverty.
Poverty is the best predictor of teen/single mother pregnancy.
Circumstances of birth are the best predictor of poverty.
- assblaster 9y agoThe free market is better at figuring out fairness than a central government. Supply and demand, by its nature, determines what is fair to be paid. If it wasn't fair, people wouldn't work the job. If it was more than fair, then more people would enter the job pool, which will cause an equilibrium market rate to be obtained. Unfortunately, the central government gets itself into market regulation constantly and distorts the free market. Poverty doesn't force people into single motherhood.
- shameshame 9y ago"If it wasn't fair, people wouldn't work the job." This is demonstrably not true. People will work jobs that pay less than their cost of living hoping somehow to get by. Your argument seems to assume sufficient demand for an individual's skill/labor such that they have power in the marketplace to do as they please.