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Minimum Wage NO! Slavery YES!

Posted by Matt Coker in A Clockwork Orange

September 20, 2006 3:09 PM

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First off, behold the new look of the UC Irvine student newspaper New University's website. Much improved. Second, take a gander at Linda Domingo's story on social science professor David Neumark's recent address to the all-new Social Science Dinner Club gathered in the University Club. Neumark essentially argued against increases in the minimum wage and for the return of state-sponsored slavery. Okay, so we're making up the slavery part (we think), but Neumark does contend that a higher minimum wage makes it harder for the working poor to find work, making them the pooring poor, we suppose.

"If you think about firms that have some choice about how to produce things [by using low-skilled or high-skilled labor], when you make whatever you're talking about more expensive, they are going to use less of it. If you raise the price of low-skilled labor, they are going to substitute away from that low-skilled input toward other inputs," said Neumark, according to Domingo's reporting.

Neumark pointed to stats that show as the price of gasoline and cigarettes have gone up, people have used them less. It follows that the same holds true for businesses who must dole out more for labor, he said.
Lucky for him, the same does not hold true for the UC system, which no doubt doles out a comfortable salary to Mr. Smarty Pants.

 

Comments (4)

  1. RP in FV says:
    September 20, 2006 18:09

    And Professor Neumark made these statements at the all-new Social Science Dinner Club that served lavish, hand-made sushi served on the naked bodies of nubile university coeds. Luckily, there was still plenty of chilled Cristal to enjoy at the end of his speech.

    Neumark said afterward while being hand-fed organic grapes peeled by day laborers dressed in togas that he would enjoy his work even more if it weren't for those damn students.

  2. bitacle.org says:
    September 21, 2006 01:09

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  3. brian says:
    September 21, 2006 15:09

    This from a public sector employee (tenured I bet)who is immune from the same market place forces he champions?
    But then rank hypocracy is nothing new from such corporate tools

  4. el serracho says:
    September 22, 2006 08:09

    yeah, this is the latest in the faux-libertarian movement. ya know.. "dont tell me how much money i'm able to take for a job." it always comes from someone who makes a lotta money.

    fuck em.

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