The workers work for people because they’ll starve if they don’t. That’s not voluntary, that’s by necessity for survival.
It is 100% voluntary. Survival is just what incentives workers to voluntarily make that decision – the notion that that's the motive behind the transaction does not change the fact that it is still voluntary. They can chose to shrivel up and die, if they want. That option is open to them. Or they could choose to work somewhere else. But instead, they made the smart decision by choosing to work for someone else – and they would deservedly starve if they refused to do any work at all. There is nothing you can do to change the fact that no one is going to feed himself or his family by sitting there watching TikTok all day. Sorry, but it's impossible.
If they had the ability to work for themselves or live without work, then they’d be doing another job voluntarily, but that’s not what capitalist society is.
Just like if you had the ability to snap your fingers and cure world hunger and have everyone come together in a big, sunny, butterfly-y field to hold hands and sing hippy rockstar John Lennon's "Imagine," you'd do it. We can sit and dream about outlandish scenarios like this all day. I really, really hate to burst your cute little naive bubble, but I'm going to pop that sucker anyway (after all, I'm just another heartless conservative.) – In real life there is suffering, death, starvation, strife, war, famine, drought, natural disasters, suffering (or did I mention that already), oh, and let's not forget, more suffering. Don't get angry with me for saying this, but that's because we're a fallen, sinful world. We have two options as human beings –
(1) Try to wash all the troubles off the face of the world with the tears cascading down your face, and watch them laugh at you
OR, alternatively
(2) Accept that there will be hardship, stop living in Fairyland, and work.
We can dream all day about what a perfect world would look like – but no one cares, ultimately, it's not going to fix anything. Sorry to be so coldly realistic – but you need a good dosage of cold, hard TRUTH.
Minimum wage reduces the amount of workers who could be paid unfairly,
Only by cutting back on the number of workers and creating unemployment.
Hope that helped! :)
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