The minimum wage was built to keep black workers unemployed.

When South Africa’s white unions pushed the 1925 Wage Act, they said in parliament that the goal was to stop black labor from undercutting white wages.

Before the floor, employers hired the cheaper workers. After it, that option disappeared and the exclusion stuck.

Thomas Sowell described the same scenario in Australia and early America, where the proposals were promoted as barriers against immigrant and black competition.

The CBO later admitted that a $15 federal wage kills 1.4 million jobs, concentrated among the young, the minority, and the low skill.

The people who wrote the original laws understood the mechanism.

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