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Abolishinist

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2. Well, if you pay 14 and 15 year olds less than the minimum wage,

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 04:03 PM

Apr 2025

and they work at, say, a poultry farm, then the price of eggs and chickens would theoretically go down, which in turn reduces the amount needed for a living wage. So the more children who enter the workforce, the better life becomes!

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Small companies! If you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage, you shouldn't be in business! Aristus Apr 2025 #1

Well, if you pay 14 and 15 year olds less than the minimum wage, Abolishinist Apr 2025 #2

The reality is that labor is a trivial cost in the price of eggs. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2025 #5

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