The minimum wage doesn't impact enough breadwinners for it to be about that. Unless you're conceding that those who favor a minimum wage increase are misinformed.
How is 'it doesn't affect enough people' an argument? Oh well it's only 6% of people who are suffering, so who cares? This isn't an argument. Oh hey only 2% get prostrate cancer, why should insurance cover it? Oh hey well fires only happen 2% of the time a year, why should we have a fire department?
There is no well-being benefit for this. It's a net negative because of the impacts.
Yes, I'm aware of our fundamental disagreements over the purpose of an economy and its intimate relationship with society. You don't believe it benefits anyone because you disjoint an economy from a society. People who make very little are just factors in an economy to you that don't deserve mention because their economic value is low. I don't believe that society benefits from people in poverty. We'll never agree. That's okay.
And your evidence?
We've had a minimum wage since 1938 and these predictions of doom have yet to come true. Then again you don't believe The New Deal happened so maybe it was never put into place, and is a recent concept! Maybe the first minimum wage was put in place in 2009 for history-denial libertarians.
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How is 'it doesn't affect enough people' an argument? Oh well it's only 6% of people who are suffering, so who cares? This isn't an argument. Oh hey only 2% get prostrate cancer, why should insurance cover it? Oh hey well fires only happen 2% of the time a year, why should we have a fire department?
There is no well-being benefit for this. It's a net negative because of the impacts.
Yes, I'm aware of our fundamental disagreements over the purpose of an economy and its intimate relationship with society. You don't believe it benefits anyone because you disjoint an economy from a society. People who make very little are just factors in an economy to you that don't deserve mention because their economic value is low. I don't believe that society benefits from people in poverty. We'll never agree. That's okay.
And your evidence?
We've had a minimum wage since 1938 and these predictions of doom have yet to come true. Then again you don't believe The New Deal happened so maybe it was never put into place, and is a recent concept! Maybe the first minimum wage was put in place in 2009 for history-denial libertarians.