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Re:Do “sin taxes” work? by gspetr on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:25AM (#17748177)
Unethical and illegal?

Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland do not have minimum wages.

Yet none of them were overwhelmed by the abuse of homeless labor.

Re:Do “sin taxes” work? by coldtea on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:45AM (#17749018)
No, but they have union agreements for minimum wages (enforced across sectors) and they have excellent welfare for those without a job (to the point that being a bastard boss and merely giving people scraps wont going to land you many workers).

Plus, as societies they have a basic decency, absent from other more exploitative societies.