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[-] deadbeef79000 45 points 1 year ago

Paying an employee minimum wages just means you'd pay them less if it was legal.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

Yup. The bare minimum because the law says you must.

These fuckers would all keep slaves if it wasn't illegal. It's not the ethical and moral disgrace of slave owning that stops them, but the legal aspect of it.

so? that's why laws exist, right?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

it is indicating the employers attitude towards their workers

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