Re:Minimum Wage Clock
by whatindaheck on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:46PM
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I’d agree if we all lived in a vacuum.
Workers can’t hold out. They (we) need food and housing. Individuals can’t hold out hoping wages go up.
From a group standpoint, unions have been weakened to such a degree in the US (where I live) that it’s hard to put together an action.
Now if unions were strengthened and grew to a point that the minimum wage had no bearing on real life. Sure, get the government out. It’s probably better that way. But you can’t strike down group power and force people to eat crap.
This feels like a variant of "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded". If there was some critical job that's going unfilled, the offering price will go up and up until someone bites, ensuring it will be filled.