If a very poor person couldn't find any jobs at all, would you support the idea of offering them a job for below minimum wage?
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This sounds compassionate, but there's a lot of questions, starting with: What sort of jobs? How does that not drive down the price of labor, making everyone else suffer?
The problem with negotiations between employee/employer is that the latter holds almost all the power.
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No, they should already have a universal basic income, because it is government policy to have some unemployment
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No, but a supplement could be written off the employer's taxes or the employee's (paid to the employer) to take on otherwise undesirable employees.
This would almost always be more cost effective than direct state care for them, just as homelessness costs more than a house.
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There was a talk some time ago about EU wide minimum wage. If EU decided to impose Luxembourg's minimum wage of 2200 EUR on Poland with the mean wage of 1300 EUR then the only possible outcome for Poland would be sky high unemployment and most people working on black market.
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It would be illegal where I live, so the answer is no legally and no in spirit. The minimum wage is, I think, around $22.00 an hour, so anyone who says they're being compassionate short-changing the most vulnerable is lying. 1
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No I would support supporting them financially through government assistance
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