JRPGfan said:
Minimum wages are there to protect the workforce from the corporations. |
Actually, minimum wages were created to keep black people out of the workforce. The modern "intentions" may have changed, but the outcome is still very much similar.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0405-leonard-minimum-wage-20160405-story.html
https://fee.org/articles/the-eugenics-plot-of-the-minimum-wage/
https://mises.org/blog/minimum-wage-and-progressive-eugenics-again
https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf
https://newrepublic.com/article/128144/dark-history-liberal-reform
http://reason.com/archives/2016/06/12/the-secret-history-of-the-mini