Say Hello to Full Employment

Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by Veelox on Saturday July 07, 2018 @04:30PM (#17480404)

I think we are disagreeing on terms. People support a living wage normally mean legally mandating that the minimum amount of money that is exchanged for an hour of labor is set to $X where X is higher than today's rate.

I gave two examples where increasing the hourly rate would make it so that the business would not hire the worker because it would provide negative value to the company.

Working half the hours does change the fact that each hour loses money for the company.

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Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by user5994461 on Sunday July 08, 2018 @04:30AM (#17482716)

You were arguing for lowering the minimum wages. It doesn't need to be lowered in your examples.

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Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by Veelox on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:05AM (#17483853)

I was arguing against setting the minimum wage to a living wage. I like the status quo of cities and states raising their minimum wage while the federal minimum lags behind. It's federalism in work.

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