Re: IRONY EXPLOSION!! Re: Cryptonomicon: arguing on the Internet

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:36:12 -0800, David Friedman
<ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <fe0ht1lmfnfibdt20s0h0augi92o5g62kv@xxxxxxx>,
> Daniel R. Reitman <dreitman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:16:09 -0700, "Shawn Wilson"
>> <ikonoqlast@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >. . . .

>> >Not even remotely. Minimum wage isn't about free contract law. Minimum
>> >wages objectively harm the poor. There is no even theoretical circumstance
>> >where they can ever help them.

>> "The Fourteenth Amendment did not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social
>> Statics."

>You realize that you are quoting from a minority opinion?

I am quite aware that Holmes was dissenting, but Lochner is so
thoroughly discredited that we can assume that the modern legal
consensus agrees.

>Not that that, or the quote, has much to do with Shawn's comment.
>Minimum wage laws are inconsistent with freedom of contract. It doesn't
>follow that they are inconsistent with the Constitution.

My point was that the majority in Lochner made essentially the same
argument that Mr. Wilson did with regard to maximum hours laws. It
ignores the contract of adhesion problem.

>Unfortunately.

I think we'll agree to disagree on that policy point.

Dan, ad nauseam
.

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