I have said this many times: The goal should not be to raise wages of workers. The goal should be to change the rules that make it impossible to make a low-wage economy — such as is seen in China, India, Vietnam, Brazil, etc. — work here. In those places, they are set up to accommodate low wages. They have, for example, housing options cheap enough for low-wage workers to afford, even if they would be considered “substandard” by Western standards. For the very poorest, Brazil even tolerates shanty towns on the outskirts of its cities. Here in the US, we would never consider such a thing. There, it works.
Why do people think they “need” $15 per hour? Because in this country, people don’t have the freedom to live in a place with no running water & an outdoor toilet, if that’s all they could afford. Set g
Yes, with our open borders and the Chamber of Commerce keeping immigration at sky high levels that without a minimum wage we’d be Brazil.
——Here in the US, we would never consider such a thing.——
Actually, not only do we consider, but actually allow such squatters on public lands.
Just yesterday right here there was a long article with pictures of a tent camp under the expressway in Oakland California.