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It's not that simple. If you pay more than the next factory over for the same work, you become uncompetitive with that factory, and you start losing contracts.
by ericd 13y ago
It's not that simple. If you pay more than the next factory over for the same work, you become uncompetitive with that factory, and you start losing contracts. If that becomes bad enough, that will drive you under. This is why minimum wages are important - to make it so your neighbor also has to pay the better rate as well. This breaks down somewhat when your factory is competing with another factory in another country, unless your factory is much more efficient.
Short of world government with universally strong rule of law, there's not an easy solution that I can see.
- kansface 13y agoMoreover, if they did implement a minimum wage, business would just move to the next country that doesn't
- ericd 13y agoYeah, I didn't explain very well, but that's what I meant by needing a world government with a strong rule of law - the minimum wage would need to be implemented across the board, or it just ends up screwing people in the country that implemented it.
- crag 13y agoUnless all countries implemented a minimum wage.