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by epmatsw 4723 days ago
Isn't it by definition artificially high if you have to enact a law to enforce it? I mean, if it wasn't artificial, that would already be the wage...
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By artificial I mean "different from a market outcome".

There is quite clearly an asymmetry in information and market power between Wal-Mart and individual employees.

This will inevitably lead to artificially low wages.

So raising them with a law will return them to a free market level, where free market implies complete information, interchangeable goods and services, and lack of market power