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[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I've always used it as an example of when oversimplified chalkboard economics don't match experimental reality.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Are the “oversimplified chalkboard economics” basically the businesses winging about having to pay people more?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

What follows is incorrect

It's a price floor, which creates a deadweight loss.

Since we're also consumers, it's a net loss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Tbf, economics has to presume inequality to be non existent. If they dont, inequality is the overriding factor that makes all the other forces at play pale in comparison. So, they remove inequality.

Again, tbf, in a world with no inequality, where only the very best and brightest rise to the top and not just a endless stream of nepo babies, with whole institutions in place to ensure a lack of social mobility, a national minimum wage would be a bad idea. Just like tax breaks for the rich would fix any problem you had, in that fake - made up world that could never exist.

But, as you allude to, in the real world, things are very different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Should it not just be integrated in to the supply cost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes, but how exactly that distorts the market is counterintuitive.