Salário mínimo é darwinismo social. Ou, pelo menos, assim pensavam seus criadores: "Royal Meeker, Woodrow Wilson’s U.S. Commissioner of Labor, opposed subsidies to the wages of poor workers. Meeker preferred a minimum wage because it would disemploy unfit workers and thereby facilitate their culling from the work force. “It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work,” argued Meeker. “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” (1910, p. 554). Columbia University progressive Henry Seager (1913, p. 9) wrote, “The operation of the minimum wage requirement would merely extend the definition of defectives to embrace all individuals, who even after having received special training, remain incapable of adequate self-support.” Seager (1913, p. 10) made clear what should happen to those who, even after remedial training, could not earn the legal minimum: “If we are to maintain a race that is to be made up of capable, efficient and independent individuals and family groups we must courageously cut off lines of heredity that have been proved to be undesirable by isolation or sterilization.” princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/myth.pdf
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