The market, if left unimpeded, will take care of ‘fair’ wages. We do not need government to determine that.
“The market, if left unimpeded, will take care of ‘fair’ wages. We do not need government to determine that.”
I don’t want the government to determine “fair” wages; I just don’t want my children leaving school at 10 years old to work in a factory so they can eat. I’m not opposed to private-sector unions, though they are inefficient and kill industries (if you don’t want a UAW-made car, buy a Japanese car made in the southern US); I’m very much opposed to public-sector unions that I’m forced to support involuntarily through taxes at the point of a gun.
We can’t ignore the conditions of many Americans before the (elected) government got involved; even then, the government only got involved because it saw Europe in flames from communism, and felt there was no other way to head it off here.