Question for Minimum Wagers

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Existing minimum wage law accounts for the OP's hypothetical. You are allowed to hire someone for less than the minimum wage if other income will bring their wage above the minimum. Waitresses are typically paid less than minimum wage and are expected to earn more in tips. The OP would only have to pay his penny pickers 15 cents/hour.

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Existing minimum wage law accounts for the OP's hypothetical. You are allowed to hire someone for less than the minimum wage if other income will bring their wage above the minimum. Waitresses are typically paid less than minimum wage and are expected to earn more in tips. The OP would only have to pay his penny pickers 15 cents/hour.

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I cannot pay them more than $5 per hour without losing money.

[Poofler]

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Existing minimum wage law accounts for the OP's hypothetical. You are allowed to hire someone for less than the minimum wage if other income will bring their wage above the minimum. Waitresses are typically paid less than minimum wage and are expected to earn more in tips. The OP would only have to pay his penny pickers 15 cents/hour.

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Agricuture receives several exemptions that non-agriculture does not. In many cases, they are not required to pay minimum wage. They know the OP example is a problem.

[iron81]

You don't have to. Do they get to keep the pennies? If so, you can count the $5/hour they are pulling out of the ground against the minimum wage. It's also completely legal to hang a "free pennies" sign on your fence and invite people to pick pennies for free.

[HeavilyArmed]

Here in Florida there's often seen a road sign, "State Prisoners Working". Just warms my heart too.

Since your job can't be filled with regular labor thanks to a form of government takings, it seems just that they might allow you to hire prisoners at $1/hr plus some nominal supervisory costs.

[BCPVP]

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I just have a problem with a billion pennies being hidden on a desert.

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This seems to be a stumbling block for a lot of people so just picture it being tiny bits of gold, or silver, or coal, or whatever other natural resource man digs up from the ground.

[pvn]

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You don't have to. Do they get to keep the pennies?

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Why would he pay someone to take his valuable resources away? When a gold mining company hires gold miners, do they get to keep the gold?

[valenzuela]

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You don't have to. Do they get to keep the pennies?

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Why would he pay someone to take his valuable resources away? When a gold mining company hires gold miners, do they get to keep the gold?

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What I understood from the OP is that each workes find 500 pennies and then they must give 50 to the OP, but aparently Im retarded.

[pvn]

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You don't have to. Do they get to keep the pennies?

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Why would he pay someone to take his valuable resources away? When a gold mining company hires gold miners, do they get to keep the gold?

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What I understood from the OP is that each workes find 500 pennies and then they must give 50 to the OP, but aparently Im retarded.

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Well, yeah, they will keep *some* of them, that's *how* he pays them. But the point is that he's paying the workers to *extract* the resources so that he may himself use them. He's not paying them to *dispose* of the resources.

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Dig it yourself unless you can't live on 5 dollars an hour. Also the most efficient way to use it would not be "by hand" it would be using a huge machine with a screen on it and a few Cat's and Dumptrucks.

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The higher the minimum wage, the stronger the incentive to automate.