What is wrong with Thomas Sowell's perspective on the minimum wage?

[StatUS]

The low end here, is higher than everywhere else

Source? Because compared to other developed nations most numbers I've ever come across does not have us at the top.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Source? Because compared to other developed nations most numbers I've ever come across does not have us at the top.

A Dozen Countries Where the Poor May Be Better Off Than the United States

Consider how many people we have to the nations listed

 

[StatUS]

A Dozen Countries Where the Poor May Be Better Off Than the United States

Consider how many people we have to the nations listed

That article doesn't really agree with your statement because you can't really make that assumption based on the data given.

Something better would be showing median incomes of the poor in the US compared to the rest of world. At that point we'd be near the top but not number one. But considering how much more money this country has than others and considering the current income gap it should be much better for the poor and the middle class for that matter.

 

[Scholar]

This isn't how you stake out a claim or defend your position.

I provided you wig multiple responses and you haven't disclaimed or responded to most of them. Not a way to defend your position

 

[Tate]

So how long until nap is a full on libertarian race realist? I'm guessing like 6 months

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

That article doesn't really agree with your statement because you can't really make that assumption based on the data given.

Something better would be showing median incomes of the poor in the US compared to the rest of world. At that point we'd be near the top but not number one. But considering how much more money this country has than others and considering the current income gap it should be much better for the poor and the middle class for that matter.

Read the comment section. The author even got called out on this

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I provided you wig multiple responses and you haven't disclaimed or responded to most of them. Not a way to defend your position

You haven't said anything. Now's the time to start, though.

 

[Scholar]

You haven't said anything. Now's the time to start, though.

Waste of time

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Waste of time

much like most of your responses?

 

[BaggerofTea]

This is a massive con game. All it is, is seeking to justify wage slavery. Especially when corporations benefit so much off the worker.

 

[rapbeats]

I don't feel like typing up a whole essay on this, but the main problems with Sowell's argument are -


1. Correlation does not imply causation. He is assuming that the reason that unemployment rates were lower decades ago (and the reason that Switzerland has low unemployment rates) is due to lack of a minimum wage but he doesn't offer any proof that this is the case. In truth there are LOTS of other things that could explain this (loss of factory jobs, more people finishing school, child labor laws, transition to a service-based economy, urban decay and jobs being concentrated in affluent areas, etc.) but he expects us to just attribute all of this to minimum wage laws.

2. He also ignores the fact that most people making minimum wage are adults and not inexperienced teenagers.

my exact words when i read the first paragraph.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is a massive con game. All it is, is seeking to justify wage slavery. Especially when corporations benefit so much off the worker.

So advocate for the increase of all wages, not scraping the barrel for MW arguments based on emotional pleas then.