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Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by pmoriarty on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:06PM (#21923564)
"forcing companies to pay workers more than what a free market dictates inevitable increases prices"

Does it inevitably increase prices, or could its millionaire/billionaire execs just maybe own a few less private jets and McMansions?

Anyway, even if prices were increased, what's wrong with a market in which all participants earned a living wage?

Or are the absolute minimum prices that markets can bear something we should be striving for even if it means those at the bottom can barely survive?

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Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by missedthecue on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:27AM (#21933596)
>Anyway, even if prices were increased, what's wrong with a market in which all participants earned a living wage?

Because if prices increase, what you thought would be a "living wage" is no longer a living wage

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