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Everyone quoting Zimbabwean unemployment figures is missing the point entirely.

A country with a high minimum wage would probably be a country with a benevolent government.

Nowadays, benevolent government = democratic government.

Democratic government = semi-competent government (this has its exceptions, including my country, the UK).

Semi-competent governments run the country well.

Running the country well (usually) = Low unemployment rates.

As some people have said already, increasing Zimbabwe's minimum wage to $10 or $20 per hour would do absolutely nothing, and quite a few people have already admitted that some of the countries with the lowest unemployment rates don't have any government-enforced minimum wage anyway.



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