Quote:I believe what FBT is trying to say is without minimum wage you would have more jobs available. Those jobs that would than exist and do not now would indeed be low paying jobs however it would change the amount of jobs available.


If say without minimum wage the economy added 100,000 (low paying) jobs that would mean the jobs right now would be competing harder to find good workers. Competition leads to higher wages.


The argument is the key to hire wages is to create a demand for good workers, more jobs not regulation would force higher wages.

I understand the theory behind it but I just dont understand how people can put all this faith in businesses to not take advantage of people. They do it now whenever they can, why would they do it with even less regulations/rules? Small local businesses will sure, in fact I see them doing it every day around town here. Small businesses wont thrive if you allow the market to run rampant. They will not last. 

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