(November 6, 2014 at 8:18 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Your error is presuming to know what I am thinking. Most things come with a cost and a benefit; it's the job of a rational person to be able to analyze those and select those options that present the highest benefit for the lowest cost. On the minimum wage question, I find that the cost in government dependency and poverty does not outweigh the benefit of having a lower or non-existent minimum wage.
Additionally, I see no response to the meat of my post, regarding your poorly structured reductio ad absurdum above; I take it this means you accept that it was a strawman?
I don't think you are a capable of knowing what is and what isn't a "reasonable" minimum wage. Further if a legislative minimum wage went away...that wouldn't mean the minimum wage goes away. Market forces would determine a prevailing minimum wage for a particular market. I didn't bother to respond to the "meat"(if you can call it that) of your post because your position is essentially liberals like you know better what the minimum wage should be than the labor market does.
