{"id":2387,"date":"2013-12-27T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T22:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2015-07-30T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T03:40:02","slug":"how-the-free-market-deals-with-minimum-wage-or-living-wage-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"How The Free Market Deals With “Minimum Wage” or “Living Wage” Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2013 there was a bump in discussion with regards to raising minimum wage<\/a> to what is being termed a “living wage”.<\/p>\n

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Any Economics 101 student can tell you is that a minimum wage is a price floor<\/a>. What price floors do is prevent the market from reaching the equilibrium point and in the case of a minimum wage (or living wage) they create a higher supply of people who want those jobs, and a lower number of employers wanting to provide those jobs. This in the very high tech economics language creates “waste”.<\/p>\n

So how does the free market deal with minimum wage? Well in 2011, McDonalds in Europe knew that the job of\u00a0order taker at McDonalds was a position that they could replace with cheaper order kiosks. So they replaced the jobs of hourly income earning people with kiosks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And mark my words, if Ontario raises it’s minimum wage to the “living wage”\"McDonald's<\/a> level being asked\u00a0for of $14 an hour, there will be no where left for students to find jobs. McDonalds will bring in kiosks. Mom and Pop shops will lay off students and work the extra hours themselves. The \u00a0black market “cash” jobs will make a huge comeback. Tax coffers will suffer as unemployment rises and underground employment markets thrive outside of the sight of the tax man.<\/p>\n

What we SHOULD be doing is eliminating minimum wage. Let employers pay people what the job value is based on the supply and demand curves finding that equilibrium point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2013 there was a bump in discussion with regards to raising minimum wage to what is being termed a “living wage”. Any Economics 101 student can tell you is that a minimum wage is a price floor. What price floors do is prevent the market from reaching the equilibrium point and in the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-numbers-dont-lie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}