• olivebranch@lemmy.caOP
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    9 months ago

    If company can’t pay it’s workers a living wage, that company shouldn’t exist.

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      9 months ago

      Indeed. That’s exactly what will happen. And then people whose wage level is below the minimum wage will be unemployed.

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        9 months ago

        Ah, got it, so all our problems are the fault of those pesky workers wanting to afford to survive, and not those who refuse to function unless they’re exploiting others…
        Makes perfect sense, “economist”… 🙄😂

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          9 months ago

          Or UBI as we seemed to agree on other part of the thread. Either of these are better solutions than minimum wage.