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

>In a perfect market system, it's impossible to pay below-subsistence wages, because you can't work if you've starved to death. I urge you to think about the many people who are part of a household who can contribute materially with less-than-individual-subsistence wages. A retiree supplementing their retirement savings with a part time job; the vast majority of teenage workers. Almost anyone working while in school. There are plenty of people who do not depend on their wage for 100% of their livelihood, but whose outcomes you worsen by pricing them out of marginal work.