A rational Left would fight for a min wage just above where it is cheaper for businesses to pay it than outsource or automate. Buy max time.
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Except that it would be ridiculous hubris to imagine that you could figure out what that exact amount was.
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which is why I think minimum wage is a bad mechanism
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If we don't automate and have outsource pressure/competition, we'll surely be passed by those who do. Maybe that's what they want tho.
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of they could judge it that well then you would have to concede the case for a command economy



