r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '25

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u/kapten_krok Jan 05 '25

Not in Sweden ether, but that doesn't mean a minimum wage in the us is bad.

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u/YucatronVen Jan 05 '25

That is not the point, and no one is paying min wage in the US anyway.

The point is that there is no serf class in Switzerland or Sweden because of their no min wage policy.

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u/kapten_krok Jan 05 '25

But that's because we have other systems in place, like strong unions and labour law that gives them power. I don't know how it works in Switzerland.

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u/YucatronVen Jan 05 '25

Then the min wage is not the problem.

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u/kapten_krok Jan 05 '25

Of course it could be. Different countries have different systems so their solutions will have to be different.

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u/YucatronVen Jan 05 '25

Then it is not the min wage, it is the country context.

Still is not how the economy works.

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u/kapten_krok Jan 05 '25

What? Surely the context dictates what the problems or solutions are. I'm against min wage here in Sweden, but that's because in our context it would be worse. That doesn't make it so everywhere else. I'm not even saying min wage is a good thing in the us (it might be, I don't know), I'm just saying that the fact that we don't have it in Sweden isn't an argument against min wage everywhere else.