(November 6, 2014 at 10:33 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Abolishing the minimum wage would be effectively legalizing slavery. There's no way in hell that businesses would pay workers more than what they have to, and for many jobs, that would be basically nothing.
Shit even with what it is now there is no way even 15per hour you could live in New York city without working two jobs and having a roommate. 15 in a rural area for a single person would work. But pay has to keep up with cost of living and be a ratio no matter what.
It is not tyranny to say that wages need to meet cost of living and the rich can afford to pay it, they simply do not want to pay it. Stupid thing is they don't understand that if they did, it would increase business.
