ext_90803 ([identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] politicartoons2013-10-10 07:59 am
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[identity profile] mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com 2013-10-11 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Based on this mindset, aren't you asking for a ladder with only one rung all the way at the bottom?

[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2013-10-11 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Since I'm asking for the removal of the wage floor, no.

[identity profile] mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com 2013-10-11 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
If this is true, why aren't the people making minimum wage making more as time goes on?

[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2013-10-11 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
The minimum wage is the race to the bottom. The incentive to negotiate disappears.

[identity profile] mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com 2013-10-11 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
So companies don't have the money to support paying someone flipping burgers $9/hr, which is why they can't allow a higher minimum wage, but they also don't have the incentive to pay someone more than the current minimum wage, because it exists at all?

Are corporations like horses with those blinders on or something? It's amazing that they're incapable of doing anything as long as any form of government rules exist.
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