[AnthonyMouse]

> Is there another kind of argument from morality EXCEPT those that go, "We shouldn't do that because it could harm people?"

The argument in this case appears to be exactly that, i.e. we shouldn't do that because those people would make too much money.

> Hard to take someone seriously who blithely compares genocide to a minimum wage....

There was a lot more to dislike about eugenics than genocide. You play the same game from the other side and you get to claim that Stalin's purges are attributable to the minimum wage because minimum wage is a communist policy and therefore responsible for all the things the communists did.

Eugenics is a much more mundane stupidity than that, like purposely trying to breed a lack of genetic diversity independent of "race" -- and we still do this with crops and livestock to our peril -- but back then they did it with people.

This has obvious parallels to minimum wage, where people are messing with something they don't fully understand based on simplistic assumptions. And then you do things like make it harder for young people to get internships because they can't pay a living wage even though that was never their purpose to begin with, or subject desperate people to really terrible jobs with longer commutes or less flexibility or otherwise higher real costs that actually really messes up their lives because you decreed that they couldn't accept a better job that pays less. Which have serious and long-term effects on large numbers of people.

[xphilter]

You are comparing adjudicating the worth of a non changeable attribute of a human to the minimum cost of labor. If you can’t see the difference between the two then I don’t know what to do. There slippery slope arguments then there are just silly arguments.

[AnthonyMouse]

There are many people with disabilities that prevent them from doing ordinary work but who could do certain jobs with lower productivity. A minimum wage is essentially telling these people that they are worthless and should sit in a room doing nothing even though they want to work and feel useful, and in many cases this makes their lives substantially worse because they both feel useless and have less income when they can't work.

That actually sounds kind of a lot like what they did to some of the victims of eugenics.

[xphilter]

Right. And there’s no way to have an exception just like there is today. I can’t tell if you’re all be obtuse on purpose. Is this some sort of political movement to equate minimum wage to eugenics? As is now conservatives care about the poor, disabled, and minorities? What’s crazy is that I agree with OP of this thread that economists should refrain from saying what’s moral. But that’s because most economists are just old white men, and I doubt they’re able to judge what’s moral better than others.