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I support a minimum wage....IF it is implented globally.
In other words if all suppliers shipping products to the US meet US Minimum standards for Safety, Wages, Health Care, Environmental restrictions, forced or child labor, and work hours/ breaks, then i think it is completely reasonable to implement minimum wage. But if we allow import of anything, made any way, from anywhere, then raising minimum wage only makes it more likely that jobs will continue to flow to other countries, leaving the 10 percent of the population which can compete ( for now) globally to fund survival for the 90 percent who will not. Eventually, given that the cost of higher education is only affordable to the uber rich, and that increasingly means non us students, even that 10 percent will succumb to globalization. At that point the 1% will invert, renounce citizenship and move to fiji, while the hunger games begin....
In other words if all suppliers shipping products to the US meet US Minimum standards for Safety, Wages, Health Care, Environmental restrictions, forced or child labor, and work hours/ breaks, then i think it is completely reasonable to implement minimum wage. But if we allow import of anything, made any way, from anywhere, then raising minimum wage only makes it more likely that jobs will continue to flow to other countries, leaving the 10 percent of the population which can compete ( for now) globally to fund survival for the 90 percent who will not. Eventually, given that the cost of higher education is only affordable to the uber rich, and that increasingly means non us students, even that 10 percent will succumb to globalization. At that point the 1% will invert, renounce citizenship and move to fiji, while the hunger games begin....