Comments on: The death of wages is sin http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: peterdjones http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-77470 Tue, 13 May 2014 13:27:26 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-77470 Productive endeabourndoesnt have to be paid. .People can compete to create amateur,music, writing, etc.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-48245 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 22:50:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-48245 It’s intelligently-written spam. A reasonable question that can be blind-posted to a ton of blogs!

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]]> By: anon http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-48229 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:16:55 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-48229 That’s not hypocrisy, just market forces.

Shop floor people have no options – it’s work or starve, except for government interventions that luckily prevent actual starvation. The nature of the labor is such that the 99th percentile and the 50th percentile only differ by a small amount in terms of how much value they can generate..

Board members do have options, and so you really *won’t* get the best person for the job unless you pay well. The nature of the labor is such that 80th percentile vs. 95th percentile board members can mean the difference between profit and complete failure.

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]]> By: Richard Gadsden http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-23924 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:23:37 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-23924 A lot of routine legal work has already been automated.

Look up software products like VisualFiles; they make a lot of money out of automating routine legal work.

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]]> By: ESRogs http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-15961 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:51:08 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-15961 I think this is spam.

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]]> By: ESRogs http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-15960 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:49:23 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-15960 The proposal is to lower minimum wage only after putting in place guaranteed basic income though. Employers will certainly chase after the low cost workers (see: outsourcing), and if there’s an aggregate demand problem, fix that by raising the basic income, or other monetary policy.

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]]> By: ESRogs http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-15959 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:28:16 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-15959 No labor regulations or minimum wage in a regime with a basic income guarantee is a pretty different state from just no labor regulations or minimum wage. No?

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]]> By: Scott Alexander http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-4405 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:20:17 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-4405 HostGator.

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]]> By: Federico http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-2169 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:43:45 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-2169 My response.

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]]> By: Doug S. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/#comment-2115 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:26:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=314#comment-2115

And what color is the sky on your planet? What CEO in the world puts his money under his mattress?

It’s not CEOs that are keeping cash under the proverbial mattress right now. It’s corporations. Apple, for example, has over $100 billion in cash – more than the market capitalization of McDonalds.

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