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Originally Posted by Shawnski
And none of you have responded to the content of my post. Nice.
BTW, I DID get some "flack" recently for posting a "dead, white guy" Libertarian viewpoint via my Misies recommendation in the what to read thread. So... please stay up to date people.
OHHHHH, and any debate here?
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What is the mechanism through which minimum wage laws increase unemployment among minorities?
That article you posted is full of holes, factual and logical.
White south african's favoured a minimum wage for unionized employees because it was ILLEGAL for blacks to unionize (or even assemble peacefully). It had nothing to do with wages, there were ALL KINDS of different government policies involved that took care of all that for them. Mining workers, their bosses and their companies headquartered in South Africa were interested in a minimum wage for mining unions because it also kept white wages high, increasing the social divide between races.
That he doesn't bother to separate the government policies enforcing racism from the government policies intended to curb it shows an utter lack of ability in attempting to reason through an argument. That's the sort of argument you come up with when you have a conclusion and do research that re-enforces it.
That a historically unequal and largely irrelevant minimum wage has precious little to do with efforts to reform the system, he's taking a classically flawed libertarian view of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
He argues forcefully, but not firmly. The article reads like an economist doing history; the summation and position are barely supported at all, while no time or space is devoted to alternative narratives. Basic historiographical fail.