Minimum Wage Arguments: Job Loss
This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of articles. I’m hoping to address the major arguments against raising the minimum wage from a rational perspective.
Cohen’s inane argument would be all well and good except for these pesky things known as statistics.
Quality of service correlates poorly with amount of a tip , while perceived race of waitstaff correlates very strongly with non-whites getting worse tips.
It actually has nothing to do with morality, in all honestly.
I mean, morality is lovely. I think we should all try to be better to each other. But your entire argument here is based on a faulty premise; namely, that morality is the only good reason to pay a higher wage, or that morality is the lynchpin of my own argument.