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Old 04-30-2008, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by BigRed View Post
But why do I owe the people below poverty anything?
What I meant was you need to distinguish between reality and your ideal fantasy.

It's sort of like saying "why can't I just ignore gravity and go soaring". It would be pretty sweet if you could just fly when you feel like it, but you can't.

Similarly while in your fictional Libertopia you can can do whatever you want you are stuck here in reality for now.

So I'll note that you are a Libertarian by ideology. You want to treat those below you as bad as is economically possible (even to true monopsony) I get it. Libertopia is a whole different discussion.

In this thread could we discuss minimum wage as it relates to a world where people support making things better for the poor so long as it doesn't harm the economy as a whole.

I.e. Does minimum wage harm the poor?

Does it otherwise harm the economy?

Providing evidence related to claims from the thousands of implementations of minimum wage laws would be ideal for making such a point.

Last edited by sunnyside; 04-30-2008 at 12:03 PM.
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