easy to criticise the minimum wage when you've never had to live off it?
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I'm not criticizing the minimum wage, but this argument for it.
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How often do folks respond to you with Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement when you post a snarky critique?
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Rarely. I tend to stay high on it. E.g. this tweet was a refutation via reductio ad absurdum.
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@DavidMRolf reductio ad absurdum? Overall welfare is a non-linear function of wages, and we're most likely at a suboptimal point now. -
I'm not saying there is no argument for a minimum wage, just that this one is clearly fallacious.
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you know someone is simple minded when they play the "just raise it to 1000" card. Really dumb.
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same as making the beastiality argument against gay marriage. Slippery slope, the most elementary fallacy ever.
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The name of this technique is reductio ad absurdum. The slippery slope fallacy is something different.
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w all due respect, the larger pt is u can't be FOR tech/disruption & AGAINST working class rights. If ur FOR access, stick w that.
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nice reductio ad absurdum
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Thanks, but they did most of the work for me.
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What is particularly absurd about this argument to you?
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which argument
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Come on Paul, you obviously understand that a different wealth distribution results in a different distribution of needs
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I'm not saying there is no argument for a minimum wage, just that this one is fallacious.
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the one thing I think everyone should be able to agree on at this point: either we should raise the minimum wage or eliminate it
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True, but I think everyone has always agreed on that.
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yeah I'm not exactly breaking new ground here. Still, a stagnate minimum wage that helps nobody sucks.
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@DavidMRolf that is some stupid shit Paul. You can do better than thatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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