• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Is there any reason that it couldn’t use existing employees rate of pay as a benchmark and literally force them to pay accordingly while reducing hours? It’s not like that wage data is secret its reported to the government as part of withholding. Ultimately a business would have to hire to meet needs or commit to paying overtime to all its 40 hour workers.

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      8 months ago

      OK, then hiring new people they’ll pay less, and after everybody’s been rotated - for everybody.

      Which is logical, I don’t get why he adds that phrase everywhere.

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        8 months ago

        Since we are playing I run the world can’t I just say you can’t offer less than the average you are already paying for new people? If you don’t like it you can always close up shop and cede the market to someone else. Also wages are normally sticky. A large portion of your workforce works for someone else how will you ever attract them to work for you with smaller wages?

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      8 months ago

      Yes there is at least one reason: jobs that aren’t yet defined wouldn’t exist in the Big Table of Centrally-Controlled Prices. So we either don’t apply it to those, or we prevent anyone from creating any new kind of employment arrangement without first getting government approval.

      This kind of thing precedes starvation and mass murder. This is very dangerous.