Weird Ideas About Welfare and Minimum Wage

There are some ideas, some policies, so stupid, so bizarre, that people trying to argue against them seem to be arguing for them, and sometimes vice versa. The minimum wage is one of these policies. In a recent article at Reason, someone made a bizarre comment about the minimum wage that needed to be countered. This kind of thought about minimum wage and the welfare state is common, sounds reasonable to people who aren't thinking, and is flatly wrong.

In this short video essay, I explain why.