Ah, I can see you do not understand my argument.

I obviously don’t know much substantive law as a student (who does?), and I’m still in school so I definitely know very little about the practice of law. But I think it’s still my “strong suit,” in that it’s what I study and what I think about the most.

I’m not making an economics argument, I’m making an ethics argument. For someone who likes to criticize my logic, you seem fundamentally incapable of even determining what my argument is.

Economics isn’t my strong suit. I’m in law school, so my strong suit is probably law....not that that matters, because I’m not making an economics argument, nor am I arguing that the minimum wage decreases unemployment.

Of course the wages aren’t sufficient. But is making no money better than making some money?

I was expecting a Donald Trump version of that Kramer painting from Seinfeld.

Wow. Just wow. Clearly, you haven’t read anything I’ve written. If you had, you’d have noticed the many, many times I referred to these wages as “unjust,” including the time I wrote “employers do not have the right to pay their workers unjust wages.” And yet you, whom I will charitably assume has not read anything…

I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are migrant workers in California being paid $4 an hour despite minimum wage laws, but that’s beside the point.

I originally responded to a comment assuming that it did.

Yes it is. But that doesn’t mean it’s relevant to the argument that I’m making, which is an argument about what would be morally right if the minimum wage DID increase unemployment

The second paragraph is irrelevant to the point I’ve been making.

........what?

Someone else came up with the $4 number. It’s just a stand-in that represents an unjust wage. And people do take jobs with unjust wages.

Shit, I was typing quickly. That’s a typo on my part.

My comment doesn’t talk about whether minimum wage increases unemployment. It says that it’s better to have the choice to work for unjust wages than to not have a chance to work at all.

If working the job is worse than being unemployed, why do people take the job? Because they've decided that doing all that grueling work for a paltry wage still makes them better off than having no money at all

My point is that a person who chooses to work for an unjust wage rather than not work at all is better off than a person who doesn’t even have the choice to work for an unjust wage.

Evidence has been provided that the minimum wage doesn’t decrease unemployment.

....I haven’t decided on whether minimum wage laws are a good idea.

You seem charming.