[Avodah] Minimum/living wage in Halakha

[JRich at Sibson.com]

Is it an area that chazal could institute takanot,? Sure.

How would chazal determine living wage? What would the mechanism be do administer them on an ongoing basis?  The history of minimum wage, price controls etc. Is such that I would think it would take extraordinary circumstances to do so.

Now we can discuss ethical responsibility -  at least in us consumers have voted with their feet on this one.

Iirc there are (unwritten?) tshuvot on what delta is material enough to overcome the presumption that one should deal with brothers.

Kt

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