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Why not get rid of minimum wage? We'd open up opportunities for all sorts of new wage deals and payment structures. What's the point of having people on welfare who could be working as a servant or doing some sort of work? It would also disincentive automation when labor prices can be driven down and suddenly everyone becomes employable.



As someone who immigrated to the US from a country where people have "servants" I'd fight very hard to ensure we never have such a system here.


Out of curiosity, may I ask which country?


Bangladesh.


That's one way to create a permanent underclass and cause a whole lot of other social issues.


See the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in the US for plenty of examples of what this would look like.




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