• @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    can’t I just say you can’t offer less than the average you are already paying for new people? If you don’t like it you can always close up shop and cede the market to someone else

    And some employers will close up shop, causing inflation, then some wages will be raised to correct for inflation and some won’t. Those of people working in the same area as hit by such a law likely won’t, because there’ll be more people qualified and fewer jobs.

    I’d wish Bernie limited this to changing the normal work week to 32hrs, and none of the other smartassery with unpredictable results.

    The core idea is good.

    • @michaelmrose
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      18 months ago

      Employers closing up shop doesn’t cause inflation. Neither houses nor groceries get more expensive because a fast food joint closed. Marginal businesses who make poor use of cheap labor such that they can’t even make much while paying people so little they get welfare are the assholes going down.