Jul 20, 2021

Royal Meeker on minimum wage laws

It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work.  Better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind. 

~ Royal Meeker, Princeton scholar and labor commissioner to Woodrow Wilson, as quoted in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 25, 1910



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