Send us a textIn this episode, Rik from Planet Vulcan examines the concept of a living wage, something that, incredibly, many otherwise intelligent Earthlings seem to believe is a good idea!  Those who advocate living wage legislation are thereby placing themselves squarely in the tradition of the White Man's Burden, the belief that a select few must coercively intervene in order to "help" the world's benighted, which inspired the era of European colonialism, and which is now part and parcel of modern progressivism.  Without any understanding of the evolutionary nature of an economic system, or even basic arithmetic, they propose that government assume the role of deus ex machina, and intervene to make things turn out "right". 

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