In article , Pete C. says...

...I expect to be paid a wage that will provide for a standard of
living that I consider to be appropriate for the effort and skills I
bring to the job. ...

Appropriate - based on the job and where it is located, of course.

By 'appropriate' you mean, in line with what other folks doing the
same job, with the same skill set, in the same area, are being paid.

Also how motivated you are to move to another area, where the same
set of conditions results in a higher pay rate.

I think the discussion of minimum wages are really a red herring here.
Most of the jobs we're talking about are skilled and have larger pay
rates associated with them. Minimum wage laws are one step short
of welfare rules - designed to see that somebody who works can actually
live on the wage.

I class them in with child labor laws.

You can make the same argument with them as with the minimum wage
laws: we should abolish them, it would make more jobs overall and provides
families with income.

An employer might create a job if he could hire a laborer for $1 per hour
instead of being constrained by the $7 min wage rate. By the same
token he would create a 50 cent per hour job for an 8-year old if
he weren't constrained by the child labor laws.

So we should repeal them, too, right?

Jim


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