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by anth_anm 2649 days ago
Your friend should have been working 80 hours a week for 20 cents an hour instead.

Ban unions!

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I don't understand this hyperbolic sarcasm. Minimum wage exists, labor laws exist. Not paying mandatory union dues wouldn't result in your wages being reduced that low, or being forced to work that many hours a week. This doesn't make any sense or support the point you're presumably trying to make whatsoever.
> Minimum wage exists, labor laws exist.

Thanks to unions.

The union my friend was forced to be a member of, in particular? And if he didn't pay his union dues, these laws would go away somehow?