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Economics

My opinion is that there are a limited amount of Jobs and that the more people that work a paying job the less money there will be to pay them.  I also believe that minimum wage makes it harder to get a job.  Ideally there would be no minimum wage and any time you raise the minimum wage the number of jobs will decrease.  I think this is based on the idea that there are a limited number of jobs and a limited amount of money.  People seem to have no problem with the idea that there is a limited amount of money because it's the evil CEO's of the world who are hoarding all of it.   But ask them about minimum wage and they seem to think there is an unlimited amount of money or that somehow the CEO's will give themselves a pay-cut and that will allow minimum wage workers to earn a decent wage. What I want to know though is if there really is a limited amount of money.   I know that there is a limited amount of actual paper and coin money out there.   But there are also ways to m