The ambitious of all stripes flock to where the economic growth is. Which is no insight. Where growth is greatest, so are wages. Consider what you’ve just read in relation to the photo attached to this opinion piece. It was taken by a colleague outside of a restaurant in Palo Alto, CA. Where wealth is […]
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Immigration to the U.S. is by its name a wage positive. It’s tautological. Higher wages are what instigate immigration, so to pretend as some do that the arrival of immigrants pushes down wages implies that the purest of market signal of all (the migration of humans) is a stupid one. No, not likely. More
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Buc-ee’s, the creator of the world’s greatest gas/charging stations and accompanying convenience stores that are beyond football field length, doesn’t need a law to compensate its employees well. Just the same, Buc-ee’s doesn’t consult “supply and demand” charts to happen on the “right” employee wages. Which means Buc-ee’s is a wonderful rejection of left
High Pay at Buc-ee’s Rejects the Left and Right’s Economics Read More »
