Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

– Ronald Reagan

More and more countries are implementing some form of minimum wage, others have had it for a long time but are finally elevating it to levels where it actually makes a difference for people.

I think rather than a set minimum wage per sector or industry (why should there be a difference??), we should have a discussion about what kind of society we want to live in and how we want to take care of our weaker members.

I would like to put forward a few fundamental ideas around how I think we should build our society.

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