Quote from: BitBlitz on May 20, 2014, 03:40:18 PM

Sub poll:
How many libertarians and anarchists voted "yes"?

I did just for kicks. It'd be a very good lesson for people as to what the real effect of a minimum wage is.

Quote from: etm on May 20, 2014, 08:52:29 PM

Quote from: Elwar on May 16, 2014, 06:11:30 AM

Do you think the government should force employers at the point of a gun to pay a wage that the federal government comes up with and spur the robot and automation industry to replace jobs or send jobs overseas?

The way you state it sounds very bias. Like the type of person that cares more about ideology than truly thinking through what the best solution would be.

Fair enough; the best solution is to stop interfering with the lives of individuals. If a man feels he is worth $1/hr, so be it; if he feels he is worth $100/hr, so be it; who are we to tell him his "minimum worth"? It assumes he is as an animal, or that we are as gods: either he is too stupid to make decisions for himself, or we are so beyond him we should dictate his wages. People aren't animals, people can reason, and if a man reasons $1/hr as his ideal wage, so be it. The only thing a minimum wage does is create unemployment, as anyone who is not worth $7.50/hr (or whatever has been decided) is not going to get to work, and thus cannot get the experience necessary to be worth more than $7.50/hr. Now you've created a dependency class; this is fundamental in our welfare/warfare society, as these people will literally go along with whatever you're doing so long as you feed and clothe them.