• @Cowbee@lemm.ee
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    97 months ago

    Capitalism itself is the scam, ownership is fake justification for exploitation and suggests a false level of meritocracy. Capitalists aren’t Capitalists because they are smarter or more competent, but because they have money, and can grow that money in the M-C-M’ circuit.

    Minimum wage is an absolute necessity because Capitalists would abuse their power to pay as little as possible otherwise. The only places a minimum wage are proven to be unnecessary is in extremely unionized countries where Unions have all of the bargaining power they need.

    • @SCB@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      Minimum wage is an absolute necessity because Capitalists would abuse their power to pay as little as possible otherwise.

      This is wrong for several reasons:

      1: even a worker-owned co-op would seek to limit new hires, because the pool of revenue is only so big. This is no different from wanting to pay someone as little as possible, ethically.

      2: if minimum wage was an absolute necessity and markets didn’t drive wages, vastly more people would be paid at minimum wage.