用英语「最低工资辩论」
I'll argue that significant minimum wage increases can actually harm the workers they're meant to help by reducing employment and pushing businesses to automate — how do you respond to that concern?
The evidence from states and cities that raised their minimum wage doesn't show the mass job losses critics predicted. On the contrary, higher wages reduce turnover, increase worker productivity, and put more spending power in the hands of people who actually spend it locally.
Those studies do exist, and I take them seriously — but many focus on moderate, phased-in increases in high-cost urban areas, where markets can absorb them more easily. Doesn't the real risk fall on small businesses in lower-income rural regions, and wouldn't a nationally uniform minimum wage essentially impose one region's cost structure on another?