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> At best all you can say is that if you decide to hire, it cannot be lower than some minimum

That's pretty reasonable. Nobody should be working 40 hours a week at a job and not make enough to support themselves. Any company who can't afford to pay their employees at least that much is a failure who deserves to be out of business.

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> Nobody should be working 40 hours a week at a job and not make enough to support themselves.

So it’s better that they don’t get hired at all and live entirely off support of the (forced) largesse of the tax payer?

As one of those tax payers I’d much rather they work and earn at least something.

That's a false dichotomy. Those workers can get hired by a competent business who can afford to pay a living wage and doesn't need the government to subsidize their labor expenses.

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