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Did you mistake the comment input form with a Google query input field, or was it a bad-faith question?

• missedthecue 5y ago
  It was a mixed faith question. We both know the answer. It was rhetorical. That point isn't that labor laws are bad. They save a lot of lives. But if you have a lot of laws that stifle productivity, such as (important) OSHA laws, it's natural that wage growth will be stifled as well. For instance, truckers would make a lot more money if our labor laws let them drive more hours per day, or at a faster speed limit. But we don't let them do that and therefore their productivity and wage potential are capped. There aren't going to be any citations about this, because there's no point in studying it. It's just plain old deductive reasoning.
  • sofixa 5y ago
    I'm sure many people will agree that sacrificing people's lives for higher productivity and wage potential isn't great and it's kind of exploitative. Furthermore, for many white collar professions, which are among the main productivity boosters and growers, time spent on the job is counterproductive past a certain point.