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Saturday, March 2, 2019
Minimum wage laws are not enough to solve the problems of employment
Laws usually do not fix things because politicians write in exemptions so they can continue to exploit workers. If volunteering to do something without pay should be legal that is less than minimum wage. So it is ok to work for zero dollars per hour or at minimum wage but not at halfway between those two. The problem is not how much someone can get paid it they have a right to refuse a job with too little pay. The problem is our society is set up to punish people for refusing to be employed with existence fees that force employment instead of self sufficient Labour without pay and that people look down on the unemployed and try to punish them for not having an employer to be their arbitrary slave master. I have no problem with voluntary employment but forced employment through government regulation is slavery.
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