Comments by "Trazyn" (@Trazynn) on "Why Andrew Yang Opposes Minimum Wage" video.

  1. Minimum wages also locks people out of being able to do (fun) jobs they like doing. UBI would people to work at any rate they want, often a higher rate considering the better bargaining positions.
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  2. I don't like unions either, they bully anyone, not just employers, who is working in the same field and doesn't toe their line. What I'm talking about are the kind of jobs people would love to volunteer for if they could afford it. Work they, for whichever reason, derive meaning out of. A minimum wage would destroy these jobs as they're often already low-profit, hard to monetize ventures and can't afford to pay a minimum wage for these people. They would cease to be. Unlike a minimum wage, UBI would retain these jobs. People get to do their semi-volunteer work for the sake of it. Meanwhile nobody will be fighting to make the unpleasant jobs more pleasant, like the unions are trying now. With UBI the demand to work for these jobs will drop and employers will be faced with the choice of offering higher compensation, invest in automation, or disappear completely because the real economy no longer considers them valuable enough. That's the type of flexibility that unions and minimum wage can't handle. The unions of course don't like hearing this because it threatens their relevancy as well. And that's where we see UBI being attacked from the Left as well, they lose their mandate.
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