Re:The American Dream Isn’t Alive in Denmark
by smallbag on Friday August 05, 2016 @08:16AM
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Perhaps small difference in wages like in Denmark is a way to avoid UBI, or a better UBI, perhaps not universal but cover a lot of people. Countries where you work but can't pay for a good meal is another option.
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Re:The American Dream Isn’t Alive in Denmark
by mrweasel on Friday August 05, 2016 @08:30AM
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One interesting thing people often neglect when talking about Danish wages is the fact that Denmark doesn't technically have a legally defined minimum wage.
Wages are, traditionally, negotiated by the employers and the labour unions, with the government as a third party that could resolve disputes. It's a system that served Denmark extremely well for almost 100 years or so, and we're in the process of destroying it. First by removing the laws that bound specific trades to specific unions and now by workers leaving the unions in droves, just to save the union fees (which are rather high).
Never the less, the union ensured that no jobs in Denmark where so badly paid that you couldn't afford a decent meal.