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To: ConservativeMind

Merit AND a 50% wage increase over prevailing wages.
Otherwise it is only meant to depress wages and the person wasn’t critical.


I understand your point. But how much do we interfere with free markets? Again, it is not all free markets or all controlled.

I have always been haunted by the Invisible Hand discussed by Adam Smith...………………………………….


17 posted on 03/07/2019 3:21:21 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

And what were the welfare policies of those countries when Adam was with us?

With your point, we really have to allow unlimited migration, because, well, companies need to benefit from the cheapest labor.


27 posted on 03/07/2019 4:29:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
But how much do we interfere with free markets? Again, it is not all free markets or all controlled.

We certainly interfere enough to preserve a stable middle class - no country without one is thriving.

35 posted on 03/08/2019 7:08:42 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: PeterPrinciple

Oh God so you are one of the borderless people? Next you will tell us you are a Lie-ber-terrorist.


46 posted on 03/08/2019 9:19:14 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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