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by toomuchtodo 410 days ago
Easily. If the job cannot pay a living wage, it should not exist. We'll get there with structural demographics eventually (pushing up wages as labor supply diminishes as the fertility rate continues to rapidly fall), but it would be nice if we could not make so many people suffer in the interim ("time value of life"). Several states are removing child labor restrictions due to "labor shortages," for example. So, you have to starve the beast of underpaid labor.

We have the means, it's a choice. We could make a better choice, but if we don't, demographics dynamics will make it for us.

https://usafacts.org/articles/minimum-wage-america-how-many-...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://joshbersin.com/2023/09/why-we-are-entering-a-secular...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/09/18/the-great-...

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-employers-hiring/101730

https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attac...