"if the employer is forced to pay more money to each worker by the government, he will have to compensate for the extra expense by (1) reducing the numbers of workers under his care, thus reducing employment and harming a large amount of workers (2) cutcorners and costs of his product, which is seldom good for quality and often makes things much more poorly-made than ever before (3) raising the prices of the goods he produces, which inevitably forces consumers (including the workers who are now earning higher wages) to pay ore for everyday items (and since minimum wages are seldom imposed on a certain industry, this raises costs in virtually all areas of the economy) (4) going out of business altogether because of artificial and unrealistic legal obligations, which means the destruction of the jobs of ALL of his workers and a subsequent spike in unemployment."
is entirely the fault of our current economic system and the means with which we organize our economy as a whole. These are not the fault of attempting to guarantee a livable pay for all workers, these are the faults of having an economic system in which businesses, resources, goods, profits, etc. are owned by private individuals competing for the interest of profit. This is a fundamentally terrible, anti-democratic, and anti-societal system that continues to be detrimental to society, including for all the issues you just brought up on just this one topic. No one is ignoring these "negative affects", we're just pointing out that they aren't caused by what you think it is...
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