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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:29PM (#24230242)
> The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through regulations and subsidies.

The only way? You don't think unions can give more power to the worker?

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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by gjulianm on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:25PM (#24245646)
You need regulations and subsidies to protect and make unions effective...
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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:22AM (#24257968)
Yeah, that's fair.
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