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Wouldn't raising the minimum was make shipping jobs to China even more attractive?

• Frondo 11y ago
  No, because you can't ship a Burger King job to China.
  • Shivetya 11y ago
    why is a job flipping burgers worth 30k? by running up the cost of unskilled labor pressure is put upon those who need skilled labor and many of those jobs can go overseas
    • Frondo 11y ago
      Why? Because we (as in "we the people") decide it is so? Remember, the government, and all its laws, derives its power from us, not the other way 'round.
      • fche 11y ago
        ... but "we" haven't given government the power to micromanage every aspect of our lives.
        • Frondo 11y ago
          A minimum wage law isn't micromanagement of our lives.
          • fche 11y ago
            But by your reasoning, "we the people ... deciding" is good enough justification for government action. There need to be limits on "we the people deciding" other people's affairs - that's elementary.
      • scutfarcuss 11y ago
        "We the people" decide that it's not worth 30k by refusing to pay $20 for a big mac.
        • toomuchtodo 11y ago
          Australia has an appropriate minimum wage yet their Big Mac's don't cost $20.
  • ryandrake 11y ago
    Yet
  • johnchristopher 11y ago
    Not that I agree with the parent but jobs that weren't burger king like were actually shipped to China and others.
  • xienze 11y ago
    But you can turn a BK job into a robot job...
  • thesteamboat 11y ago
    But sometime in the future, you can have China build a burger flipping robot.