tankasnowgod
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A person born into wealth wants to start a business in an area with high poverty and low opportunity so they can exploit the desperation? You legislate for minimum wage and use state power to strongly encourage union membership to empower worker bargaining.
This is one of your ideas I disagree with. Minimum Wage takes away opportunities from workers and smaller businesses. What business is it of the government's if I wish to sell my labor to an employer (whoever it may be for whatever reason) at $1.75 an hour? Which, by the way, was more than the minimum wage that Kennedy talked about in his debate with Nixon.
I also don't think most unions today serve the interest of workers. The less they are voluntary and most are somewhat compulsory, the less responsive they will get to the demands of their members. And if the state is "strongly encouraging" something, that's beginning to sound like force. Meet your strong central authority that you don't want to admit exists.