Today our hero busts out with a baffling misunderstanding of international wages:
The wages earned by food service workers isn’t a fixed element of the natural order. A cook in India makes less than a cook in Mexico who makes less than a cook in Germany. That’s not because cooks in Germany make better food than cooks in Mexico or India (indeed, in general the reverse is probably true). It’s because the overall level of skills and wages is higher in Germany than in Mexico or India.
Sure! And it has nothing at all to do with Mexico's minimum wage, or Germany's numerous legally enforceable collective bargaining agreements. Let's be sure to put those things entirely out of mind -- they're awfully confusing and they hardly comport with our hero's recent libertarian flirtation. Repeat after me: Disregard...all..things...that...disagree...with...your...thesis. There is no spoon -- got it.
(And please, whatever you do, don't think about the fact that these countries have dramatically different costs of living -- hell, that fact could wreck your whole point. Where market forces do set wages, low-skilled workers are broke, period.)
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Read his post. He really appears to be losing it. I cannot make any sense of it.
ReplyDeleteI suspect he is suffering a painful existential crisis, possibly exacerbated by transformation to Progressotarian.
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