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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by MuffinFlavored on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:44PM (#22005487)
No. I know that there are a few barriers keeping people near the "minimum worth" level:

1. education

2. language

3. physical/mental inability

What are some other ones?

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:55PM (#22006328)
Ready availability of competing labor.

Minimum wage jobs are frequently difficult and labor-intensive, but the individual workers are replaceable. The idea that pay rate and effort required are perfectly linked is what I'm contesting.

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by MuffinFlavored on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:12PM (#22006455)
You are right. I was wrong to link "hard work" and "pay". I should have linked "skilled work" and "pay".

Don't people work hard to become more skilled though?

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:29PM (#22006590)
That takes another scarce resource, time.

(And frequently money.)

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