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Infimum Wage

June 18, 2018

A protester demands a higher 'infimum' wage, unwilling to assume the minimum is actually attained.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-18-infimum-wage/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Protester (sign: "RAISE THE INFIMUM WAGE"):

A: "Why not just say 'minimum' wage?"

Protester: "I don't want to make any hasty assumptions about the topology of the labor market."

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