Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Wage Rates: Unions, Minimum Wage Laws, and Employer Oligopoly Message-ID: <710@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 23:51:57 EST Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.710 Posted: Thu Feb 7 23:51:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:19:37 EST References: <811@ratex.UUCP> <593@tty3b.UUCP> <1080@amdahl.UUCP> <595@tty3b.UUCP> Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob) Followup-To: net.politics.theory Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.politics:7446 net.politics.theory:32 Summary: In article <595@tty3b.UUCP> mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes: >The consequences are such only if capital is allowed to >define economic fact. Unemployment is a poltical problem, not an >economic fact. That it remains is evidence of lack of >political will to solve it. > >Mike Kelly But Mike, every time somebody points out the political actions needed to solve the unemployment problem, you get upset. The three things usually pointed to are: 1) Getting rid of the minimum wage laws. 2) Placing labor and corporate monopolies on equal legal footing. 3) Lowering the welfare payment levels to the point where working is preferable to staying in the program. Do you have a counter-proposal for political action that will solve the unemployment problem?