# Labor 101, or why strikes are okay

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/labor-101-or-why-strikes-are-okay/989700 "2023-09-06T18:04:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/labor-101-or-why-strikes-are-okay/989700/161 "2023-09-08T16:41:27Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> What do you think is gained, on a societal level, by taking a bunch of jobs that support people in a middle-class lifestyle, and changing them so that they’re minimum wage jobs? What benefit do you think derives from making those people poorer?

Bumped for visibility, because IMO this is indeed the salient question of the thread, and I’d be very interested in hearing those questions answered as well.

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