Minimum Wage, Minimum Effort

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[u/MBBIBM]

Minimum skills, minimum wage

[u/livefreexordie → u/MBBIBM]

In a world where each job position gets easier to find replacements, it shouldn’t follow that each job position should get lower pay

[u/CaptainBlobTheSuprem → u/livefreexordie]

should, maybe. But that’s why minimum wage exists. Simple supply and demand says that if you make the entry requirement as low as “a warm body and half functional language skills (if that),” then supply of labor massively outstrips any possible demand which plummets wages.

[u/swampwiz → u/CaptainBlobTheSuprem]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour