(July 8, 2014 at 12:59 pm)Natachan Wrote: The minimum wage here in the US is about where the market would set it anyway. In the long term minimum wages don't decrease poverty, they just increase prices across the board. You could invest in education, charitable organizations, and infrastructure projects and fix the poverty problem much more effectively than artificially raising wages across the board.
Oh yeah? Are you going to rely on the people that have the money and consciously don't pay a living wage to their current employees to make these investments?
