>I wonder about this. In a perfect market system, it's impossible to pay below-subsistence wages, because you can't work if you've starved to death. Exactly. I

>I wonder about this. In a perfect market system, it's impossible to pay below-subsistence wages, because you can't work if you've starved to death. Exactly. It's no hard to see how those who praise it so much get to immediately benefit from it by being able to hire people for wages that are ridiculously low and forcing the taxpayer to foot the bill for the rest.