• @[email protected]
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    -122 months ago

    The problem with minimum wages is that they also drive up prices over time. This is a bandaid to a much bigger problem.

    • @Cort
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      142 months ago

      That’s why they also need to introduce a maximum wage. To stop prices going up from paying the ceo too much.

          • @[email protected]
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            -22 months ago

            Because minimum wages cause significant cost for companies, which they are forced to pay by law.

            High salaries are not mandatory and if a company can’t afford it, they don’t pay that much.

    • @surewhynotlem
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      32 months ago

      So we should decrease your salary to drive down prices?

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        While lower salaries would decrease the amount of financial pressure on companies and could lead to more competitivepricesz, I don’t think that that would be the correct avenue to walk down no.

        I think the only real solution to that is to break up mega corporations and try to fund and subsidize local businesses.

        Capitalism has been a blessing for everyone, even those clowns on lemmy.ml or other clown instances, but when globalization hit, it went downhill. Trying to promote local businesses again would - at least in my opinion - better the entire system, from wages to prices to work conditions.