Freedom is the right to choose. Minimum wage laws restrict someone from choosing to enter into a contract to sell their labor below a rate set by the government. Licensing laws restrict someone from choosing to purchase the labor of someone not accredited by the government. In both circumstances the individual’s right to choose is curtailed. The headline of the article was “Labor Markets Aren’t Truly Free”. That the author chose to focus on employers is beside the point. The fact that labor markets aren’t “truly free” is transparently obvious.
Instead of looking at the headline read the article. It’s clearly about the lack of pricing power for labor. The author is decrying the absence of pricing power on the part of labor so responding with a suggestion to further erode that pricing power without providing any evidence that this action would help labor is not constructive. Unless your point is that emoloyers have too little pricing power and we need to correct the mechanisms that take away their power.
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Freedom is the right to choose. Minimum wage laws restrict someone from choosing to enter into a contract to sell their labor below a rate set by the government. Licensing laws restrict someone from choosing to purchase the labor of someone not accredited by the government. In both circumstances the individual’s right to choose is curtailed. The headline of the article was “Labor Markets Aren’t Truly Free”. That the author chose to focus on employers is beside the point. The fact that labor markets aren’t “truly free” is transparently obvious.
Instead of looking at the headline read the article. It’s clearly about the lack of pricing power for labor. The author is decrying the absence of pricing power on the part of labor so responding with a suggestion to further erode that pricing power without providing any evidence that this action would help labor is not constructive. Unless your point is that emoloyers have too little pricing power and we need to correct the mechanisms that take away their power.