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> They can drop their base wage for all employees to the minimum wage. 1: set of people willing to take a job with decent pay/benefits and then find out over t

> They can drop their base wage for all employees to the minimum wage. 1: set of people willing to take a job with decent pay/benefits and then find out over the course of probably months that they are in a current day episode of Black Mirror where the job has been scientifically designed to burn them out. 2: set of people willing to take a job for minimum wage with the "freedom" to hit stretch goals and make their wildest dreams come true! I claim that set 1 has more people in it. I offer into evidence the fact that Amazon already chose #1 when choosing #2 would have been vastly more cost effective for them if the sets contained the same number of people.

whack 5y ago
True, but consider the following. Every single restaurant waiter and uber driver is already a member of set 2. In fact, even more so - they are taking jobs with zero or below-minimum-wage, with the expectation that they will earn more from variable income. Uber, lyft, and the dining industry hasn't had too much trouble hiring people from set 2. I agree that set 1 is larger and preferable to Amazon. But if set 1 is outlawed, they will simply transition to set 2 instead. Or give everyone a pay cut and hire more people. Not pay their employees the same wage for lower output.