OrphanWilde comments on Can we dodge the mindkiller? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 21 June 2013 01:12:52PM 1 point [-]

Do you think beliefs about the efficacy of minimum wage are necessary to promote or reject it?

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 June 2013 01:22:50PM *  0 points [-]

No. There are many motives why someone might promote a policy even when he doesn't believe the policy is effective.

I would even find it plausible that most people promote or reject minimal wage laws based on a notion of fairness instead of effectiveness.

There are libertarians who believe that the state has no right to force a employer to pay a certain wage. On the other hand you have progressives who thinks it's unfair for an employeer to pay 3$ per hour to his employee and for that reason the state has to intervene.