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>Come on, you know the idea of a minimum wage is pretty widely accepted as a good idea by a lot of people, including (most?) economists. From a recent study ht
by logicchains 7y ago
>Come on, you know the idea of a minimum wage is pretty widely accepted as a good idea by a lot of people, including (most?) economists.
From a recent study https://cei.org/blog/what-do-economists-think-about-minimum-wage https://cei.org/blog/what-do-economists-think-about-minimum-... : "A new poll of professional economists finds 74 percent of respondents opposing a $15 per hour minimum wage—and nearly a mirror image of non-economist public opinion, which is nearly a mirror opposite. 84 percent believe it would have a negative impact on youth employment levels. 43 percent favor eliminating the minimum wage outright. Only 12 percent of respondents identify as Republicans, which is roughly representative of the profession as a whole, with 35 percent identifying as Democratic and 46 percent as independents."
- p1necone 7y agoThat sounds like it supports my statement? 74% oppose a specific increase, but only 43% oppose having a minimum wage. (That wording is ambiguous as to whether that's 43% of 100% or 43% of 74%, but both are < 50%)
- logicchains 7y agoI suppose it's the language: it would support "accepted by a majority of economists", but I don't think 57% support counts as "pretty widely accepted as a good idea by... most economists".
- p1necone 7y agoWhich is why I said "most?". I knew I wasn't sure so I communicated that. Sorry if it wasn't obvious enough.
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- p1necone 7y agoAlso all of these sources people are citing are from shadowy "conservative think tanks", got anything with a little less blatantly obvious bias? epionline.org is especially laughably biased and cherry picked.