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The question is did this raise average wages? There is litle benefit otherwise unless the min wage is way too low
by buboard 7y ago
The question is did this raise average wages? There is litle benefit otherwise unless the min wage is way too low
- burkaman 7y agoThe minimum wage is way too low.
- conanbatt 7y agoToo low for what purpose?
- colejohnson66 7y agoLiving.
- gnaritas 7y agoIt's not meant to provide a living. Companies don't exist to provide jobs, jobs are a byproduct of the business, not its reason to exist. Minimum wage jobs are people with no skills who are easily replaceable, usually teenagers learning to enter the workforce.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoMaybe in 1950. Today, it can be any retired person, highly educated or not, who can't find a better job.
- gnaritas 7y agoIt certainly can be, but that's not a business problem, there will always be people who failed to prepare or lacked the necessary skills to prepare for old age or people who refuse to move somewhere they can find a job. Education doesn't equal skill; jobs pay for skills, not for education; if you have skills you can find a better than minimum wage job, but you might have to move. Those are problems for society, not for individual business owners. Those problems should be solved by taxes, not by forcing business owners to pay people more than they are worth to the business.
- conanbatt 7y agoAre people on minimum wage dying?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoYes, statistically, more than others. For stupid preventable reasons. Because of no insurance, worse food, difficult transportation options, crime.
- conanbatt 7y agoIf that's your cause, what do you think about reducing the tax rate on wages below 30k? They pay about 20%.