The only minimum wage argument from the anticapitalist left should be “if your economic system fails when people’s basic needs are met it deserves to fail”.
On a global scale, if corporations are forced to raise their wages, they’ll raise prices, cut costs elsewhere, and dive deeper into economic imperialism. This is not a flaw, but a result, of capitalism. It’s not avoidable or excusable.
Whether or not prices have to go up does not matter. Pricing shouldn’t determine survival.
Capitalism is like whack-a-mole: You raise wages somewhere, corporations and governments push them down somewhere else and outsource production there to cut costs. ~80% of the world lives in poverty. At what point do your arguments for raising wages reach the source of the issue ?
If your economic system fails when people’s basic needs are met it deserves to fail
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