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Hidanas The Blissful

The minimum wage is an employer literally saying I'd pay you less if I was legally allowed to. How cruel do you have to be to think abolishing that helps anyone.

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I have a lot of different feelings about this. On one hand, a living wage is great. On the other hand, I've only been able to do startups by hiring people at a wage I can afford to pay, which necessitates I pay people who are from poor countries.

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That is a tough choice to make; but I question if start ups are just the exception to the rule.

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I suspect not. I personally lean towards abolishing the minimum wage entirely. I think the minimum wage hurts people who have trouble working. Either you have to be worth 11 or 15/hr, or you're unemployed. The hard binary division is icky to me.

4:16 PM · Nov 8, 2017