RichardKennaway just gave you a link containing economic discussions about minimum wage, doesn't that count? Or does that fall under "completely different moral principles"?
I responded prior to reading that link, as I had posted that statement prior to being sent to that link. Giving myself additional time to fabricate a reason for my statement would seem disingenuous.
Provisionally, some of the arguments seem to fit in those categories, but others may not. Unfortunately, there's not really much in the way of support for many of the claims, due to the fact it's Wikipedia, and full arguments are never likely to be presented there. So I'm going to follow some of the links.
I don't think you can tell much about someone's rationality from the views he holds - a more important factor is how he reached those views
Indeed, but it is not simply the views, but observing the debate patterns, that has made me believe this site to be at least slightly more rational than average.
Hence, when seeking rational reasons to abandon a belief that I know may be irrational, I decided this was a good port of call.
I responded prior to reading that link, as I had posted that statement prior to being sent to that link. Giving myself additional time to fabricate a reason for my statement would seem disingenuous.
That makes sense; I had interpreted the conversation more like:
-- "I never saw a good argument against minimum wage"
-- "Well, here's a complex economics analysis on Wikipedia that points some theoretical problems with minimum wage"
-- "Hmm, I still haven't seen a good argument against minimum wage."
On minimum wage, my personal pos...
The concept of minimum wage is one I'm rather attached to. I have dozens of arguments for why it helps people, improves the world, etc. etc. I suspect this view is shared by most of this community, although I haven't seen any discussion of it.
I don't have much understanding of the harms that minimum wages cause; and at what level of minimum wage those harms become relevant (ie. a minimum wage that would not be a living wage even working 24 hours a day is unlikely to have any of the same problems that a minimum wage sufficient to buy an aircraft carrier an hour would have)
So what are the harms that such laws cause?