[wplug] The Minimum Wage and Musix (unrelated topics)

[Bryon Gill]

A minimum wage increase could inflate prices, but the gain in wages would be 
larger than the rise in prices unless everyone was making the minimum wage.

Your argument that people should be allowed to enter into contracts for $50/hr 
jobs ($50/hr?  Sign me up!) hides the fact that there's no bottom end to your 
libertarian ideal - why not allow people to sign over their entire lives and 
enter into slavery?  If you don't think that's ok, where and how do you draw the 
line?  I submit to you that the argument you're making doesn't allow for one, 
because it would constitute a "minimum" wage.

Minimum wages exist to protect the powerless, those who would otherwise be 
cheated or bullied into working for far less, or those who simply can't find any 
other work.  I'm sure if you're being offered $50/hr contract jobs you're not 
the sort of person minimum wage laws were designed to protect.

Can we please hop back on topic now?  I have been playing with a 
music-production distribution called Musix 
(https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/Documentation), and it's the best one 
I've tried yet.  I've tried PlanetCCRMA, which worked pretty well but I 
found the install procedure tedious and I could never get the kernels to play 
nice with all my hardware.  I've also tried AGNULA, but I've never been able to 
get it to work properly.  It's got a ton of useful software installed, most 
notably Hydrogen (a drum machine which has come a *long* way since I first tried 
it), Ardour (multitrack recording program) and Time Machine (a big "record 
everything" button meant to catch inspiration as it happens).  On the downside, 
it didn't recognize my USB Mouse, and also didn't recognize my wireless PCI card 
(no big surprize there), but it did bring me to a dialog at startup that 
correctly  identified and configured my M-Audio Delta soundcard.

If you are interested in this sort of thing I strongly recommend booting it up (no install 
required) and giving it a spin.

Bryon



On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, web at 3dresearch.com wrote:

> At 05:12 PM 12/13/2005, you wrote:
>> <RANT>
>> It's a shame one can make more in a day of panhandling than working a job.
>> Every time there is an effort to raise the minimum wage at state or
>> federal level there is suddenly unity among the parties to soundly
>> defeat it, yet these politicians have no problem with voting
>> themselves hefty pay raises to supplement their already hefty salaries
>> year after year! It's really disgusting. Wages have been very stagnant
>> in Pittsburgh the past decade. And we have no national plan to provide
>> health insurance of the 40+ million who cannot afford it. I wish
>> people would wake up and stop being so apathetic and selfish. It's a
>> disgrace that we live in such a rich country yet so few people see any
>> of that wealth, and other countries with even a larger population can
>> provide superior social benefits, especially in terms of the
>> affordability and access to health care and university education.
>> </RANT>
>> Zach
>> [...]
>
> Well, increasing the minimum wage will only increase the price of everything 
> else and won't make minimum wage earners better off.
>
> There is another argument against the minimum wage though. Say, the minimum 
> wage will be increased to $100/hour. Sounds good - but what if an employer 
> offered me a job at $50/hour which I find still attractive?
>
> Minimum wage laws only outlaw agreements which people are willingly enter 
> into otherwise.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
>
> Janos Dohanics
> web at 3dresearch.com
> http://www.3dresearch.com/ 
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