@hansw@mastodon.social It doesnt matter how many times you see it, eliminating minimum wage can fail 1000 times over but as long as every time it is without the other 2 components then you can not say it is due to minimum wage

Its a bit like trying to cure an alcoholic.. if all you ever see is the fact that when they stop drinking they get sick (and perhaps die) you might believe wholeheartedly the solution is to give them more alcohol.. but even if you see 1000 alcoholics die from abruptly stopping drinking that doesnt mean your observation is valid because it ignores the whole picture. there are other elements needed for an alcoholic to succeed and without those, then yes, an alcoholic will die or get sick, but that is not an argument to solve their problem with alcohol.

Same here, you are looking at minimum wage, which causes more damage, but by itself acts as a buffer to other problems.. so its making things worse over time but looks beneficial from the perspective of anecdotal evidence removed from consideration of the whole solution. But the second you introduce an actual solution, with free education and strong welfare, and then do away with minimum age safely, then the problems you saw so many times in the past are no longer there and you find actual solutions are the result.