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Wed Apr-07-10 02:50 PM
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The fact that the solution to problem isn't politically practical doesn't make it less right.
What "committee" set the current minimum wage? The criteria I suggest aren't arbitrary. If a job is correlated with a shorter life expectancy, then those hours of lost life should be factored into their minimum wage.
While the cave-in at the coal mine grabbed headlines, the fact is that every single day miners die of workplace injuries - usually shortly after retiring.
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