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No it shouldn't.


Why not?

It's getting quite difficult to live in our society if someone isn't "perfect." Perfect credit, or virtually everything is more expensive, even non-credit stuff like insurance; perfect criminal history, so you can forget getting a job at a lot of companies if you smoked pot or, FSM-forbid, are released from jail; perfect banking history; perfect social media presence; and on and on.

The free market isn't willing to address this, so how do we do it as a group?


The free market is perfectly willing to address this. It will do so by offering them less than minimum wage, once it is allowed to do so. Until then, "free market" is a misnomer.


Okay, so how does the "free market" address a growing underclass that can't afford to live outside poverty? How does the "free market" address social issues caused as a result of this poverty? Inconveniently, for the "free market", these people will not go quietly, and when things get really bad, violence will become an issue. So the "free market" incarcerates them, hoping they don't reproduce, unless they accept their slavery. Then afterwards, everyone is happy, living in paradise.


Why, the free market already addresses these issues: commercial prison services, commercial security forces - mostly used outside of the country of origin, for now - and bail bond companies and and and... a whole industry is based around services tailored to the growing underclass.


Brings to mind the point that "the minimum wage is always zero".




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