On: My Position On The Disney Layoffs

[Shivetya]

why is a job flipping burgers worth 30k?

by running up the cost of unskilled labor pressure is put upon those who need skilled labor and many of those jobs can go overseas

[Frondo → Shivetya]

Why? Because we (as in "we the people") decide it is so?

Remember, the government, and all its laws, derives its power from us, not the other way 'round.

[scutfarcuss → Frondo]

"We the people" decide that it's not worth 30k by refusing to pay $20 for a big mac.

[toomuchtodo → scutfarcuss]

Australia has an appropriate minimum wage yet their Big Mac's don't cost $20.

[fche → Frondo]

... but "we" haven't given government the power to micromanage every aspect of our lives.

[Frondo → fche]

A minimum wage law isn't micromanagement of our lives.

[fche → Frondo]

But by your reasoning, "we the people ... deciding" is good enough justification for government action. There need to be limits on "we the people deciding" other people's affairs - that's elementary.