Specifically, this view implies that any attempt to push up wages will either fail or have bad consequences. Setting a minimum wage, it’s claimed, will reduce employment and create a labor surplus, the same way attempts to put floors under the prices of agricultural commodities used to lead to butter mountains, wine lakes and so on. Pressuring employers to pay more, or encouraging workers to organize into unions, will have the same effect.
这种观念尤其在暗示,任何推高工资的企图都是徒劳的,或者会有糟糕的后果。它认为设定最低工资会减少就业,造成劳动力过剩,就好比给农产品设定价格下限曾经导致黄油成山、红酒成湖等等。强迫雇主增加工资,或鼓励工人组成工会,也会有同样的效果。
But labor economists have long questioned this view. Soylent Green — I mean, the labor force — is people. And because workers are people, wages are not, in fact, like the price of butter, and how much workers are paid depends as much on social forces and political power as it does on simple supply and demand.
但劳动经济学家对这种看法一直存在质疑。大扁豆绿饼(Soylent Green,同名电影中用死人制成的一种食物。——译注)——我的意思是,劳动力——是人。由于工人是人,工资实际上和黄油的价格不是一回事,工人的薪水多寡,取决于简单的供求关系,同样也取决于社会中的力量和政治权力。
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