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Re:After inflation, people making US minimum wage are earnin... by andrekandre on Friday July 22, 2022 @07:27PM (#32198354) 

  > Just stop importing cheap labour and let markets work
maybe i am missing something obvious, but "letting markets work" imply letting cheap labour to flow freely...?
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Re:After inflation, people making US minimum wage are earnin... by pauldenton on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:48PM (#32360263)
Supply and Demand As the Supply of unskilled labour increases, the cost of that labour, their salaries, goes down
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