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Originally Posted by Tulip86
I feel minimum wage does in a way prevent companies to take abuse of those who have no other options than to take the "minimum wage" jobs. If there was no lower limit, they would just pay whatever they wanted to pay. Off course there are companies who do pay their employees well and treat them with respect, but for most, it's profits before people.
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Obviously, companies are concerned about the bottom line. I think that the "high end" (for lack of a better term) jobs seem to realize the importance of work-life balance and employee retention more than "low end" ones do. This doesn't have anything to do with minimum wage, though.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
And the origin of minimum wage dates before civil rights, the odds that minority unemployment was being adequately counted and that the wars didn't have a huge impact seems unlikely.
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I was questioning that as well.