Re:I need to explain to you just how dire America's Pokémon ...
by TchoBeer on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:35AM
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Because then they would lose profits. If labor becomes more expensive, maximal profit would be found at producing less and charging more, but overall profit would decrease.
Re:I need to explain to you just how dire America's Pokémon ...
by Robotbeat on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:09AM
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...you’re ignoring demand effects. Higher wages means more aggregate demand. Empirical research on minimum wage increases shows that this basically fully compensates for hypothetical disemployment effects.
If the market would bear it and they could increase prices profitably, why wouldn’t they just do it today, regardless of wages?