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To: Penelope Dreadful
I've seen instances where employers have to pay above minimum wage to get competent help. Is the increasing minimum wage causing a greater move to automation? Certainly. Anything that raises labor costs encourages innovation. But the other variable driving automation is the poor quality of our available labor force. Confer with an employer and discover how bad it really is.

Still, not relevant to the point.

We live in a constitutional republic. The Constitution is the ultimate law of the land, NOT the supreme court or any other branch. Where are you constitutionally justified in taking from me against my will and giving to someone else. That is just what mandated wages are. You are using the power of government to confiscate my earnings. But that's OK because you're not keeping it, you're giving it to someone else that you deem deserving.

Ultimately, in the final analysis, the government's power comes from the point of a gun.

155 posted on 08/22/2019 1:34:25 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s; Penelope Dreadful
Yes, what a vote getter for the GOP:

"Due to poor quality of our available labor force we need to import labor and automate! Vote for us!!!"

156 posted on 08/22/2019 1:36:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If you do wish to live in a society that has rules, then you are probably out of luck. You might try either Somalia, or maybe South Georgia Island.

In the meantime, here in civilization, we have all kinds of laws intended to make things better. Like what kind of electrical wire you have to use when building a house, or what size fish you got to throw back in. Like minimum dress codes, and zoning laws to keep that public housing project from going up in your neighborhood. And can you believe it? We even tell people they can not use any old drug they want, and that if they make a baby, they have to support it, and not just toss it out on the rest of us to take care of.

And hopefully one day, we will even pass a law to stop outsourcing our jobs to foreign countries. But you can avoid all those rules and things! Learn to like seal and penguin meat and head on out to South Georgia Island!


166 posted on 08/22/2019 1:50:52 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

That’s the point. The solution lies in improving the labor market supply-demand curve in favor of labor. There are ways to do that that do not require a minimum wage.


174 posted on 08/22/2019 1:59:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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