azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: YES

Don't take this the wrong way, but what if your parents named you "Turd". How "free" would you feel being bullied in middle school every single day?
Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: NO

I think that would be a no, because there would be repetition of names. Or when there are so many names like that, then there would be names which are so weird to hear, and many people would invent weird names.
Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: NO

No since that would defeat the right of its citizens to live freely and choose how to be called.
Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: NO

It's a matter of taste. Some people like their eccentric names and others want to stick with names like "Bob" and "Joe... (Cavalry)." So the government shouldn't be regulating baby names any more than they should be regulating the decor in your living room to ensure it remains tasteful. A. Because the government has shown repeatedly it doesn't know what good taste is and B. because taste is subjective, anyways. Some children suffer when their parents name them "Wednesday," but others come to hate the average, normal names they were given like "Chris" and change it to something more interesting as soon as they can. My point is regulating names does nothing to ensure that kids won't be ridiculed for or dislike their name; it can happen even when there are only normal names to choose from. So let the parents choose and when the kid becomes an adult they can decide for themselves if they want to keep the name or not.
Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: NO

Naming a child as parents best see fit is fundamentally rooted in freedom many names are heirlooms handed down generations.
Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: NO

It would be foolish for the Government to step in and regulate names for babies.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Absolutely. Moreover, I think we should just cut to the chase and bring back slavery for everyone who just hasn't had the breaks that a good many of us get just by virtue of the circumstances of our births. I believe that if for whatever reason you end up an unfortunate you should be punished by society in whatever way it deems suitable. Any monies we can invest in human beings is a bloody waste--well, unless you're from the upper classes, in which case I believe you should be able to milk the system; steal from the poor and declining middle class while giving them short shrift. I think that welfare should begin at the top--like what's actually going on right now--fully supported by the sheeple who will wake up one of these days in the not too distant future and wonder, WTF, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!!!! Ooopsies, ya should have been paying attention and helping out those who couldn't help themselves--and now YOU are one of THEM. Alas, you too have been royally screwed. Welcome to the club--the very big, non-exclusive club of the minions.Don't ever give a guy a break. Punish and deprive instead. Only way to go to keep us on the road to inevitable self annhilation.Yeah, go ahead and abolish that pesky minimum wage.........notwithstanding that a minimum wage has never ever been enough to bring others on board to a liveable existence.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

I truly despise willfully ignorant ideologues. I don't down-vote often, but you sir/madam, have earned it.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Well, well, well. So you can vote?! But can you think?
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

The minimum wage is one if the biggest causes, if not the biggest cause, of unemployment. It is illogical, discriminatory, and deceitful. What the law says is that unless your marketable skillset is worth above a certain amount, you cannot have a job. It appalls me that one can work for free, but if they want to be paid, cannot work for below a $7.50. It is likely the biggest barrier preventing the unemployed from finding a job.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Whaaat...? The primary reason for minimum wage is to allow enough money for the employee to support essential functions (food, water, etc).
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

That was the purpose, yes. And by forcing people who cannot find labor under the minimum wage to be unemployed, how exactly does it fulfill that purpose? Yemen assuming they are paid more for their services, what happens is because businesses are forced to pay people more than their skills are worth, prices go up. This creates an endless cycle:Minimum wage increased - cost of living rises - minimum wage is insufficient - minimum wage increased
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Yes, but without the minimum wage, employees would be paid abnormally low wages, which would cause them to lack the ability to obtain the supplies required for them to continue to live.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

Yes, but without the minimum wage, employees would be paid abnormally low wagesWhy is that?
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Because of the fact that the companies that the employees are in service of would take advantage of the fact there is no requirement, as it would increase the company's profit.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

Why do the market forces and free market competition not exist when it comes to wages?
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Heaps of countries call that the living wage, which is different from the minimum wage
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

That is not fair, it boosts their pay if they manage to get a job so that they're not just being payed a couple dollars for an hour of hard labor. If we abolish minimum wage the poor will be taken advantage of and exploited because of their delicate financial standings.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

This something I have to disagree with you on.Minimum wage makes it so people won't so people get a decent enough pay to live off of. If there wasn't a minimum wage an employer could easily give someone a penny an hour without it. You could work all day, every day, something that's impossible, and only make $168 a week. That's not enough to live on.And most people who are unemployed are that way because their own fault.If you applied EVERYWHERE in your town that pays minimum wage you are going to get a job eventually. The only excuse if you have a handicap preventing you from working.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Minimum wage makes it so people won't so people get a decent enough pay to live off of.It ensures that people whose work is less valuable than the minimum wage don't go unemployed. It also makes sure that people aren't payed more than their labor is worth, making business more efficient and lowering costs. If there wasn't a minimum wage an employer could easily give someone a penny an hour without it.If a business was offering only a penny and hour, no one would accept the contract. Employers need labor to carry out their business. The free market competition between employers would raise wages. If company X is offering more than Y, Y will have to raise wages to acquire necessary labor. -Why don't we just raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour? Then everyone wouldn't have any financial problems. The market doesn't work that way. Cost of goods would increase, employment would decrease.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

First off, wealth is intertwined to the purchasing power of the people in general, so if they are unable to purchase the products, the company will have to reduce prices in order to make a sale. Paying people a penny is not going to be the wisest choice in that regard, since it is going to become progressively harder to make a profit. Secondly, what I find with people who are unemployed is that the system for getting them a job is beyond their control, usually impeded by the internal politics and/or HR department and/or the hiring manger of the employing association or because they will never know if it is something to do with the resume or their appearance.And you really shouldn't be applying everywhere in your town in the first place because you're qualifications are not likely to match up and you are just making it difficult for the organization in question to find the right person because now they are burdened with even more paperwork or E-mails, paper and/or broadband which could have been put to better use finding the right candidate.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

It also restricts the how many skill sets are below that amount, by restricting the level of competition by creating a price floor in products. So instead of companies lowering wages in a market with plenty of labor competition in order to lower prices and thus be comptitive, they have to go more long term and invest in capital instead. Depending on who the product is sold to, this could be very good for the working class since the same number will be employed at a living wage(instead of below one). This assumes an economy which is doing well. The minimum wage helps to increase actualizatible demand, making the lower classes more of a viable market, and may allow for even more jobs due to that. Consider the food service worker which spends the equivlant of 2 hours of his time on, well having his food served to him. He may make 7 dollars an hour making pizzas, and spend 2 on eating one. He is much more unlikely to spend 6 on eating one. The minimum wage has a very wide and diverse set of effects, and in a complex market, can not be simply analyse.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

What an incoherent mess with actualizatible demand? Where did actualizatible demand come from?
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

I suppose it has more common names, but the demand which can actually be supplied or is supplied.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

If there are more common names, what is it? Most people just call it equilibrium, and the only way to equilibrium is free markets.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Precisely, triangular intervention is the main cause for unemployment via unions, licenses and minimum wage among others, and minimum wage creates surpluses, so many unskilled labor of $7.50 will be unemployed for years and some a lifetime whereas binary intervention just makes everyone poorer due to the misallocation of resources.Unfortunately, there is an push by Democrats for an increase in the minimum wage upwards as much as $9.80.My question is if minimum wage makes economic sense, then why are these legislatures so cheap, why not push the minimum wage up to $100? Well, nobody would be employed even those at the top?
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

Actually, I agree that minimum wage is a cause of unemployment. It is one of the reasons all jobs are shipped off overseas.However, it is corporate greed and government compliance (as well as a governmental push) that allows these jobs to move out of the country.Many of these countries have a much lower cost of living, as well.In my opinion, $7.xx per hour, in this country, is equivalent to slave labour - yet you would have people working for less?
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Employees earning higher real wages is great. It's a sign of economic advancement. Therefore, we should artificially force employers to pay their employees more... right?Wrong. It's a common fallacy amongst the economically illiterate that you can force an economy into prosperity by manipulating the market so that it resembles a more prosperous economy. What these people don't understand is that a "poor" (laissez-faire) economy isn't actually "poor" economy, it's an "opportunity" economy. That is, because competition is low and demand is high, the door is open for many new entrepreneurs to meet that demand, each trying to "one-up" the other in terms of price and/or quality until equilibrium is more-or-less met, thus inciting an era of economic prosperity.By avidly fighting to skip the "poor" economy stage, you're foolishly skipping over opportunity for actual growth to make way for artificial growth which will inevitably lead to economic regression when investors and employers start to catch on that the market isn't actually as good as this artificial growth would have them think. In the case of the minimum wage, this manifests itself in unemployment as many people whose product of their labour is now worth less than their labour, requiring employers to fire employees and both overwork and over pay a select few employees. Everybody losses, but it looks good on paper, and that's all that matters, right? Right?...
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

It actually doesn't look all that good on paper either, just in-case you were thinking of taking pride in that.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Minimum wage forces employers to pay their workers more which dose a few things, first they have to lay off some of their workers because they can't afford to hire them, second now that they have to pay more for their workers they have to raise the price of goods. It makes the amount of jobs go down and prices go up, over time it evens out and everything will go back to normal, there will be the same amount of workers but prices will still be higher than they were before, but because of the inflation minimum wage created, they will seem reasonable. So it causes job loss, higher prices and inflation. Abolish it.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Raising the minimum wage will not get people more money. It will decrease jobs, and force companies to pay more for their employees, which will cause them to also raise the price of their porduct or service, so the end result will end up being a big cycle of inflation. This is something we have already experienced to an extent, and getting rid of the minimum wage will only help. It will create many more low-paying jobs, which can be used as a starting point of good experience. Every job is not meant to support a family, and raising the minimum wage will not change that, nor will it allow every job to support a family, because as I said before it will only result in a cycle of inflation.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Apollo's arguments help explain the problem it brings to the impoverished, so I'll go at it from another angle:Small businesses, truly small, can not thrive as long as minimum wage exists. Big business will not likely hire nor lower the current wages of employees if minimum wage were abolished. In the interests of big business, things will pretty much be the same. The only differences will come to light once a new generation of employments starts to rise, such as 10 years later when a business needs to hire new people for various tasks. They will make decisions on whom to hire for how much and for what purpose.Where the immediate results come in is for small businesses that are starting off. As simple as someone who creates a small market no larger than your living room. One the issue of employment, they will have to decide who to hire and for what costs. They could hire 3 employees for 3 dollars and hour each, or they could hire only one employee at 7.50 and hour. With minimum wage out of the way, the small business owner will be able to have more employment at a lower cost, making sure that the costs of his business will result in profit. If labor is cheap, the small business owner can hire more labor to help out with the business, resulting, if the business provides what the consumer wants, in more profit. This will, of course, have the business have more money to expand his/her business and to hire more labor. Depending on the job criteria and how much this labor is worth the business owner, (s)he will be able to give higher wages and more employment.A minimum wage pretty much sets the costs of labor to a minimum of what the minimum wage is. An employer will then have to make all labor decisions based on the fact that he needs to buy 7.50 worth of labor, which can often result in less labor.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

yes,people are fond to buying everyday necessities in this outgrowing,civilized region.everything we do to live is based on money,a form of trade items to get what we want and need.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Minimum wage makes it illegal to hire people who produce less than the arbitrarily set wage control. What's worse, it means that those people who are now priced out of the market have no income, can't find a job, and then resort to welfare. A monumental hypocrisy then results. The same people who said it was immoral and therefore illegal to work for less than a given wage, then pay these people far less than this wage in welfare, to do contribute nothing to the economy, all at the expense of the taxpayer. You want jobs, get rid of minimum wage.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

sorry, this one should be deleted. still trying to figure out how this works .............................
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

yes,i think the minimum wages should be abolidhed. as you know government issure certain laws to protect worker' wages.some private companies,contractors normally want to make as much profit as they can.in the drive for profit,they might deny workers their rights and not pay them wages.this is wrong.if any worker badly need work,worker having no bargaining power and his bose paid low wages.so you tell this wrong....
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

Yes, it should be abolished. Let the market place work itself out. However, with that being said, be careful what you wish for. If people cant afford a place to live or have enough money for food or health care then the government will step in and help the less fortunate out. You would be naive to think that such a wealthy country like the USA wont help the poor. This will be achieved through higher taxes on companys' and the wealthy. Do you really think if a company is making millions or billions of dollars a year and paying some of their employees $5.00 an hour they wont get nailed one way or the other. The best way to achieve a strong economy is through liveable wages for a majority of its citizens.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

I am tired of doing stuff at work that I don't paid much for.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

ok ya'll if minimum wage is abolished businesses might have a better chance to succeed because smaller businesses are low on money and would not want to pay as much for employees especially if there not worth $7.25 to the owner
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

(minimum wage should be abolished. I do not understand why it says 'no' at the bottom)Why isn't minimum wage $1,000,000 ? Why not grant a millionaire salary for everyone?Why can't we all be millionaires? It's because most of us cannot produce at that level. Therefore, unemployment will be near 100%.So then, it's not the wage that comes first, it is the labor. We first ask, how productive is the labor THEN we price it. Price never comes first. If the labor is unproductive, then the wage will fall. Minimum wage is a price control on labor and the most unproductive people, will be laid off. Precisely the people it was meant to help.But who does it really help? It helps the ones already employed in senior levels. They don't have to worry about people coming onto their turf and lowering their salary via supply and demand. It's the same thing with licenses, it shifts the supply line to the left, thus raising prices (and their salaries).Labor unions always love minimum wages, but they understand, they cannot raise the minimum wage too much, otherwise, free market forces will just lay them off later, or the company will be overcome by labor costs and forced to go out of business, laying off EVERYONE.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

The minimum wage is the simplest and most effective form of collective bargaining. If there was no minimum wage, then the millions of people who can produce a service or good valued at minimum wage would all be in competition as to who can offer the lower price. Wages would be sticky downward, and would get lower and lower and lower.Yes, this would mean that all people are employed. However, a substantial amount would be earning wages less than at the minimum wage. Those with money are those with power in such a situation, which I do not agree with. I believe that only through mass collective bargaining, a minimum wage, will all those who can produce at equal or greater value to the minimum wage be paid a fair deal.Remember that for all those who work at less, there are substantial benefits systems in most developed economies. They therefore have time to either look for a job where they can produce at minimum wage, or to increase their skillset until they can. Without benefits, I would agree that the minimum wage would put people into poverty for unjust reasons, however with it, I feel that it is the best way to protect the largest amount of people from unfair payment practices.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: Yes.

You seem to be arguing that in the absence of a minimum wage, wages would decreased with competition. This is were I think I whoops point out a key distinction. -The competition will result in the increase in wages if the demand for workers outstrips the supply. This is the ideal situation. If the supply of jobs is lower than the demand for them, yes, people will compete for LOWER wages. But this is a vast improvement over an economy with a minimum wage. With a minimum wage, if you are no longer economical to employ at above minimum wage, you are fired. Plain and simple. If there is no minimum wage, you can simply work for less. I don't think you will argue that taking a pay cut is better than unemployment.
Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

The competition will result in the increase in wages if the demand for workers outstrips the supply. This is the ideal situation.Again, I still disagree. Even in cases where there is great demand for workers than supply, there is a much great magnitude of demand (not in economic terms) for the job from the worker, than the employer. They will be much more desperate, and therefore if the employee offers the job for less than the going market rate, many workers will happily accept.You have to remember that the world is not ideal, people are not all knowing, and they cannot refuse to work simply because they aren't being offered enough.Employers are motivated by self interest, yes? Logically, they should want to pay the minimum amount for workers as possible. In any situation (even where demand outstrips supply), there will be cyclical unemployment, therefore willing and able workers with no jobs. If an employer offers these people lower than market rate wages, will they accept or not? Even if an employer gives all of his current workers a wage cut, many will take it. Other employers take note, and they too reduce their rates. It is much simpler for collective bargaining to happen on behalf of the employers, as there is significantly less of them, than on behalf of the workers.Therefore I believe that only by having a minimum wage will this sort of behaviour be prevented.If there is no minimum wage, you can simply work for less. I don't think you will argue that taking a pay cut is better than unemployment.This is a necessary evil. I agree that it would be better if employees had the opportunity to work for less, but I do not see how they can have this freedom without it being abused by employers.