> there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs. What you’re describing is someone who’s living in the margins of society. Com

> there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs. What you’re describing is someone who’s living in the margins of society. Committing tax evasion just to survive while still living in poverty with multiple roommates just to get by is not what I would consider an okay life. This person will have no hope of retiring, so they’ll work until they die, which will be early because they won’t have access to quality healthcare in our expensive, privatized healthcare system. That’s certainly not a life I want to live, and I doubt you would want that either. > Things cost less and businesses produce more when they’re run efficiently. If you take a narrow perspective where the only thing you want to maximize is economic output, that’s true. But what we see in American society is that this comes with antisocial trade-offs. Wealth inequality has skyrocketed, health outcomes have plummeted, homelessness is a plague. I think there should be a balance. Yes, we want effective and efficient businesses, but we need to balance it with overall benefits to society and that’s not happening in America.