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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by spsful on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:57AM (#22494635)
The only thing I would want to add is a minimum wage increase would cause employment to decrease holding all else equal, so an increase in supply would not be observed unless something else were at play.
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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by whatshisface on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:59AM (#22494660)
Oh, of course, I was talking about the two separate cases of wage increases due to productivity increases (the guy maintaining the widget machine makes more than the guy who used to hand-stamp widgets) and wage increases due to minimum wage increases (all factories must now pay workers $15/hour for making one $8 widget every two hours).
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