Comment by akiselev
6 years ago
How many transient backpackers actually work for these companies to fund their immediate journeys and what do they have to do with a debate on localized externalities that they never experience?
6 years ago
How many transient backpackers actually work for these companies to fund their immediate journeys and what do they have to do with a debate on localized externalities that they never experience?
No idea. It is probably not anywhere near the number of salaried employees who bully local governments into passing wage laws they will never experience the unintended consequences of. Yet somehow they still feel entitled to decide for other people what working arrangements they should be allowed to make for themselves.
Same question, what does A have to do with B? I've had enough herring today.
Let's assume for a moment that people are not helpless imbeciles who need us to tell them what to do and that they choose the best option available to them, within the constraints of their life. Let's further assume that they are more familiar and better equipped to balance the constraints of their lives than we are.
Then we can deduce that if we remove the option they have chosen by making it illegal they will necessarily be left with a worse option. Since if there had been a better one, they would have taken it.
If we feel that the best option they have is not good enough because it makes us feel bad or whatever, then the question we should ask is "How can we make better options available?", not "How can we take away the best of the available options?"
Legislating a price floor does not magically change the underlying economics of a business. It just makes the jobs below that floor go away.
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Hi. You must be new to HN.
Lots of people with a 200k salary, entitlement, keyboard, and some time, itching yo have a say on how people making min wage should be able to transact.
Nothing new under soviet-harvard education. Please move along.