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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by OCASM on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:56PM (#24215465)
Is starvation preferable to getting a low wage job?

You start somewhere. Minimum wage laws just reduce the amount of opportunities low skill workers can choose from.

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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by brendoelfrendo on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:14PM (#24216606)
This could just go in circles. What benefit does a job that doesn't provide enough of a wage to survive actually provide to the employee, except a way to waste their time while they accrue debt and wait for an emergency expenditure to bankrupt them?
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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by OCASM on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @08:31PM (#24218562)
If only there were less regulations, allowing the creation of more businesses which would compete for this man's labor, increasing the wages as a result.
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