This isn’t the free market when it’s mandated by law. The wages in a free market would be determined by supply and demand without government collusion
Comment on California fast food workers demand another minimum wage increase — four months after $4 raise
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Aww are the widdle capitalists upset the workers are realising how much value is being stolen from them?
Maybe corporations should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Pay what people feel they are worth, or go out of business.
Isnt that what everyone here wants, the power of the free market to weed out inefficient businesses?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We don’t live in a free market when business cartels can fix wages.
This is labor competing back with the same methods that capital uses.
Cry harder.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Isn’t about labor at all. It’s about the government setting wages.
Lots of people lost their jobs or hours. It’s weird you like to see them suffer by incompetent government action.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you think labor is the only one lobbying the government regarding wages?
Wake up.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
It’s mandated by law because the corporations are too large to care to do it themselves and have to be told.
They’re just worried about making more money this quarter than last quarter. Under that reality, a law becomes necessary. Corporations have clearly shown they won’t pay their workers a decent wage when they don’t have to.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Labor can’t compete back! That’s not fair!!