From tax breaks, through GMI, to FULL COMMUNISM - poverty elimination station

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Venomous posted:

I, for one, welcome our new communist overlords

# ¿ May 5, 2015 01:10

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wateroverfire posted:

I feel like any noodle vendor could tell you where your thinking is going wrong. Perhaps you should ask them.

So basically you're saying that theoretical knowledge of axioms and truths trump the mere observation of empirical reality? Does this apply to all fields or only to economic ones? After all--

wateroverfire posted:

Just because you don't like the dynamic doesn't mean it's not fair.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 18:29

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Lotka Volterra posted:

Every society is a meritocracy, what don't you get about this GoJM?

You might say it's a Just World?

# ¿ May 25, 2015 06:47

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Mo_Steel posted:

Contains information directly opposite to your argument:

Hope this helps!

I believe you'll find that under Praxeological analysis, logical positivism cannot explain or predict human action. Therefore, empirical data cannot falsify economic theory.

# ¿ May 25, 2015 20:37

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The minimum wage was effectively about $15 back when it was introduced, wasn't it? Why were we not immediately plunged into a huge great depression?

# ¿ May 27, 2015 23:10

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It seems that while it could hypothetically be taken to extremes, paying higher wages and having more skilled and energetic workers accomplishes more than having them in a state of exhausted fear. It would seem one of the primary reasons pushing against this (other than the understandable if not laudable "I don't want to pay my workers more") is received wisdom.

False consciousness, if you will. :ussr:

# ¿ May 28, 2015 18:38

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But if we advocate for a reform package that will pass this Congress on the Fifth of Never, we get the benefits of pushing a policy we benefit from AND we get to claim a rhetorical high ground.

# ¿ May 31, 2015 19:45

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I suppose what asdf is pedantically insistent on is that higher minimum wages would eventually impact employment, and this is probably true at a certain point. If you had a mandatory minimum wage of $40/hour you would probably see a lot of evasion, assuming the value of a dollar remained the same. However, while this is probably true, this doesn't necessarily hold true with $15/hour or maybe even $20/hour.

# ¿ May 31, 2015 20:43

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