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Right again. The whole inane debate is carried out on the basis that there is only one side to the equation - the supply of labour. The main cause of rising wages over the last 200 years has not been unions or government regulations, it has been the market. The opposition to the reform is as though there are only two classes in society - 'the workers' and 'the bosses', and the workers are presented as at the level of subsistence, with no money and no other options but starvation. In fact, the arguments in favour of 'the workers' are just self-interested hyperbole intended to keep a framework of laws in which the positions of higher paid workers are protected by law at the expense of lower-paid workers, the unemployed, consumers, employers and taxpayers.
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