From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 16:50:54 MDT
> >Why do we think it's somehow "right" to forbid contracts for pay that's
> >not sufficient for living alone?
>
> Umm....because those poor people might get mad and riot and destroy
> property and shut down commerce....just like they did back in the 20's
> and 30's...which is how we got our labor laws in the first place?
You have a bizarre recollection of history. The problem in the 20s
and 30s was that everyone was so poor they couldn't even live as
large families, much less alone. The minimum wage did nothing at all
to fix that problem; indeed, it probably delayed recovery.
The point of my question is this: why, if a person living with
parents or roommates or some other cheap arrangement wishes to do
a job that supply-and-demand happens to make worth less than the
amount he'd need to live on his own do we think it's "right" to
tell him that he isn't allowed to take that job?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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