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> You can argue about the efficacy of minimum wage laws, but it seems like real empirical studies (instead of just theoretical arguments) have been pretty incon
by apotheon 17y ago
> You can argue about the efficacy of minimum wage laws, but it seems like real empirical studies (instead of just theoretical arguments) have been pretty inconclusive.
Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
> And overall, the point is that you can't just let people create a massive loophole in that law by just deciding not to pay people at all.
I, for one, don't have any problem with people finding "loopholes" in bad laws.
> So the tradition of unpaid internships in certain traditionally white-collar industries tends to be a subtle form of class discrimination.
Class warfare? Seriously . . . ?
- akeefer 17y ago"A subtle form of class discrimination" is a far cry from "class warfare." I'm saying that, ethically speaking, unpaid internships help to further close off certain careers to people who are traditionally disadvantaged by giving opportunities to get ahead to people who are already traditionally more advantaged. If you disagree with that logic, that's fine: just explain how I'm wrong instead of just dismissing it.
- apotheon 17y agoI disagree with the idea that the possibility that one set of people might be more "advantaged" than another is good justification for ensuring nobody gets a leg up. . . . and claiming otherwise, specifically when those sets of people are identified by social or economic class, is pretty much "code smell" for "class warfare".