By the same logic, why shouldn’t people be able to sell themselves into indentured servitude, right?
As I understand “indentured servitude”, I’m pretty sure they already can. Certainly not slavery, the terms of such a contract are unconscionable, but the idea that you’d be contracted to labor for some temporary period for food, lodging, and passage doesn’t seem to violate contract law as I understand it.
Though, that said, how does your rhetorical question follow from my logic? I’m not seeing the connection here. My logic is that minimum wage laws have an effect contrary towards that which you’re trying to achieve. Or at least, towards that which most people believe you’re trying to achieve.
Clearly, you want small businesses to die, and for gigantic corporations to flourish, while some large fraction of the population starves because now they’re out of jobs. I don’t know why I didn’t pick up on it before.
As I understand “indentured servitude”, I’m pretty sure they already can. Certainly not slavery, the terms of such a contract are unconscionable, but the idea that you’d be contracted to labor for some temporary period for food, lodging, and passage doesn’t seem to violate contract law as I understand it.
Though, that said, how does your rhetorical question follow from my logic? I’m not seeing the connection here. My logic is that minimum wage laws have an effect contrary towards that which you’re trying to achieve. Or at least, towards that which most people believe you’re trying to achieve.
Clearly, you want small businesses to die, and for gigantic corporations to flourish, while some large fraction of the population starves because now they’re out of jobs. I don’t know why I didn’t pick up on it before.