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Minimum wage threatens Germany’s fave pickles
TheLocal.de ^ | 21 May 2015 14:32 CET

Posted on 05/21/2015 6:46:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: aposiopetic

Look up Germany’s history. They are not a free-market economy and have not been for ages, if ever.


41 posted on 05/21/2015 8:02:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: aposiopetic

That’s absurd. The “firm” cannot pick up its growing earth and just move somewhere else.


42 posted on 05/21/2015 8:03:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Rockpile

Correction: $9.46/hour ATTOW.


43 posted on 05/21/2015 8:04:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I agree. Which is why the pickle-producing firm may reasonably be charged with knowledge of the risk of government action, however ill-conceived that action may be.


44 posted on 05/21/2015 8:05:41 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Balding_Eagle

What is that?


45 posted on 05/21/2015 8:06:22 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H
Correction: What the hell is that?
46 posted on 05/21/2015 8:07:45 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Olog-hai

I disagree. Firms choose which markets they enter. If the cost structure in one market becomes unattractive, a firm may enter another market. Unfortunately, government mandates all too often determine such unattractive cost structures.


47 posted on 05/21/2015 8:08:16 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: aposiopetic

You really think that the entire world is just like the USA, don’t you?


48 posted on 05/21/2015 8:11:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I have no idea. But I favor an economy where firms and households make their own choices irrespective of government mandate. Though I favor such an economy, it doesn’t seem to exist in the USA or elsewhere.


49 posted on 05/21/2015 8:15:57 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Olog-hai
You really think that the entire world is just like the USA, don’t you?

Not interrupting your ongoing conversation but most Americans
actually do think that way. It's a bubble.

50 posted on 05/21/2015 8:22:49 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: MaxMax

Most? Or just most liberals?


51 posted on 05/21/2015 8:23:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Ken H

That is ‘the gherkin’ tower in London.


52 posted on 05/21/2015 8:25:02 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: Olog-hai
Most, all kinds of Americans. It has no political bearing from my experience.

For some it's hard to imagine what it's really like in other countries
so they accept that the world must be like our bubble of the world.

53 posted on 05/21/2015 8:27:41 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: MaxMax

FWICS, the conservatives are better informed about not only the status quo of other nations and the same in comparison/contrast to how the USA was founded.

One glaring example is the view of the so-called “Muslim world” and how liberal politicians especially view it through their own rose-tinted glasses, thinking that the people there must think as “we” do—whereas conservatives are informed of the situation’s reality.


54 posted on 05/21/2015 8:31:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Conservatives here on FR do, I agree. Most here seek information like sponges
and know better than to rely on the media. Yes, we're the exception to the rule.

In the broader scope people get their cleaned up info from other than
readable and researchable sources. Most people do believe the world
is like their bubble. Heck, when I advertise my company I don't give
people the dirt, I give them the cleaned up fluffy version.

55 posted on 05/21/2015 8:50:16 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: RedHeeler

I’m an engineer.


56 posted on 05/21/2015 9:13:00 PM PDT by null and void (In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
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To: null and void

Me to. After I get done with some SFO crap I’ll share.


57 posted on 05/21/2015 9:14:59 PM PDT by eyedigress (swh)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Is this new? Why hasn't anyone ever realized this before?

Oh trust me, there are a whole lot of people in the cities upping the minimum wage to $15 that are gonna be slapped up the side of the head with realization and not the pleasant kind.

58 posted on 05/21/2015 9:28:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: aposiopetic

“It’s called the market.”

You are actually not saying anything. Your statement is absurd because by your definition of “market”, there is nothing to compare or contrast. You might as well have said “it’s life”.

The rest of us are discussing the relative merits of free market economies vs. command market economies.


59 posted on 05/21/2015 10:41:48 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: aposiopetic
It's called the market.

Um, no.

60 posted on 05/21/2015 11:22:52 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Hey, hey, GayKKK. Who you gonna lynch today?)
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