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The way to help everyone is to raise the minimum wage - let’s do that. Let’s increase social safety net which helps everyone. Continue to expand Obamacare even. Consider basic universal income. Lots of ideas help far more than having a few companies unionize

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The minimum wage in itself doesn't help. [0] Real wage increase is needed.

Also tangentially related: https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/racism-skews-our-beli...

[0] "In the long-run, however, employers have far more flexibility. They can replace labor with capital. They can replace low-skilled workers with higher-skilled workers." - https://www.econlib.org/archives/2017/07/minimally_convi.htm... (note, Caplan is a libertarian)

All for it. Also workplace protections with teeth.

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