Inequality

@divegeester said
Yes you did.

Here.

@A-Unique-Nickname said
Where? Show me the words.

@divegeester said
I’ve just “shown you the words”

If you meant something other than what you wrote you can always clarify yourself.

@A-Unique-Nickname said
Where in there post did I say the girl should be paid the UK minimum wage? You're seeing things.

@A-Unique-Nickname

Countries are obviously free to set their own minimum wage but should there be an international minimum when workers are employed by companies based in other countries and especially when they're dealing with customers from those countries like the girl from the Philippines working for Virgin?

I live in a wealthy country. Poor countries need rich countries to provide them with employment, otherwise there'd be starvation. We buy both goods and services from poorer countries, so as a society we're saving money on those things. However, we also import people from those countries to work here, and we pay them exactly the same as we pay the locals. There's a huge queue of people waiting to come here, collect those higher wages, support their families back home comfortably and save money to set themselves up financially when they eventually return. I don't think there's a lot of exploitation going on there. It's quite another matter when Apple pays $80 for an iPhone and retails it for $800. That's a clear case of exploitation of all the parties involved. Thr only winner is Apple who don't even bother to pay tax.

@Kewpie said
I live in a wealthy country. Poor countries need rich countries to provide them with employment, otherwise there'd be starvation. We buy both goods and services from poorer countries, so as a society we're saving money on those things. However, we also import people from those countries to work here, and we pay them exactly the same as we pay the locals. There's a huge que ...[text shortened]... xploitation of all the parties involved. Thr only winner is Apple who don't even bother to pay tax.

@divegeester said
“Obviously”… Why?

Minimum wage limits are based on country specific conditions.
How could one country enforce wage levels on another?

@shavixmir said
The obvious solution is a singular world wide economy. But that's for future generations.

A person must have a country of residence. I would therefore presume that the minimum wage would be connected to that.
However, say on a cruise ship, this would lead to large differences in the wages being given.

Another option would be using the flag the cruise ship is sailin ...[text shortened]... ably force companies to try to sail under the cheapest flag... but they do that quite often already.

@divegeester said
Call centre agents operating from cruise ships the world over will be pleased to hear about this when you guys are able to establish the new world order.

@shavixmir said
Je ne sais pas.

I reckon the world will go the way of the universal basic income, and people will opt to work for various amounts of hours...
And if a can of coke is the same price everywhere, it just makes life so much easier.

Why all the hassle?

@shavixmir said
Je ne sais pas.

I reckon the world will go the way of the universal basic income, and people will opt to work for various amounts of hours...
And if a can of coke is the same price everywhere, it just makes life so much easier.

Why all the hassle?

@divegeester said
Good luck in your dream world.

@Very-Rusty said
I agree with you but people especially in different countries just do not want the same things. It would be nice if things were the same price everywhere but that is just not the way the world works.

-VR

@shavixmir said
Don’t people from Manchester move to Glasgow without any hassles?

It would seem to me a problem of scale, rather than possibility.