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I feel a deep sympathy for poor people, especially young people with minimal skills, which is why I think the minimum wage should be abolished. Making it much
by baggy_trough 1y ago
I feel a deep sympathy for poor people, especially young people with minimal skills, which is why I think the minimum wage should be abolished. Making it much easier for them to get jobs is an important way for them to start gaining skills and becoming more productive, justifying a higher wage.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoI'll take "what is a dead end job" for $500, Alex. The kind of jobs offering sub-living wages are generally not ones that care about your growth. If they could get away with slave labor they would.
- baggy_trough 1y agoA so-called dead end job is much preferable to no job at all, which is the option on offer.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoNo job and studying for a career is preferable to not paying rent despite having a job. Of course I'm assuming you have a support network for that option. But that's the thing about poverty: you work twice as hard and progress nowhere.
- baggy_trough 1y agoEach person should be able to make that trade off for themselves. There’s no universal answer, and attempts to impose one are destructive.