Debate: Should the minimum wage be abolished?
Side: No.

people will overstock on goods that are in high demand because, why not? ...Why would you overstock things if you could just get new ones any time? Overstocking comes from fear of not being able to acquire new. If you can get them any time then that fear would be irrational.Currently people expect to count on money, if they know or feel like hard times are coming they will begin overstocking by buying excessive amounts of goods.No money would also require a change in views, in values, in education, etc. You do understand what that means? You don't base it on current ways, that's when things won't work, as you have so clearly explained.Get real.You get real.Greed is a human quality, not a money quality.How would you express your greed with no money? Hoarding things that are freely available anyway? What would be the point?Animals are different from humans, they don't have the kind of mind we do. Animals don't know when they should have more luck then usually, so of course they will get greedy. Animals cannot create their own environments, they cannot produce their own food, they have to hunt and search for food, and in many cases that will end with death.Your ideas are utopian. You're ignoring human motivation. When you separate labour from profit, you remove one's motivation to work hard or innovate.Utopia is subjective. Absolute utopia is impossible. And you are calling money human motivation? With that you are essentially saying that with no money people would do nothing... Survival is the highest motivation, nothing tops that. You do things because it is necessary, not because you get paid for it with money. We created money, not the other way around. Are you saying we created our own motivation? With our peculiar minds we do create our own motivations, since clearly survival does not come naturally anymore. Why replace survival with money?I have no reason to worry about coming up a bit short, or producing poor quality products, and I certainly don't have any reason to invent something to revolutionize the industry.As I have mention new values, new views, better and higher education... And add survival to all of it - survival for as long as possible. That means, aside other aspects, developing new technology, advancing science, expanding across the universe to increase the chance of survival. Assuming we can get that far... we definitely have the potential.You see, the problem I listed above is actually the best case scenario of events. What's more likely to happen is that business owners will catch on that incentive has hit the floor and demand is shifting too rapidly to keep up with anyway, so the market stagnates. moving smoothly. The only thing even approaching a solution that any human being has ever come up with is a rapid expansion of state control over production and distribution, which has proven to only prolong the catastrophic failure of a money-free system.Ever heard of economic management? You seem to be saying that no one would keep things under control and moving smoothly.You can't worm your way around this. These problems exist and require some kind of solution. What's yours?You are the one worming around this. You fail to include many important aspects. The solutions are simple to come up with, simply use logic (something you seem to have on a rather weak level).I'm ignoring your argument on minimum wage on the grounds that it assumes the very thing you're trying to prove. You need more than, "... it would incline heavily toward slavery..." to prove slavery would occur without the minimum wage.Why are companies paying minimum wages if they have enough money to pay above that? You think they would pay more if minimum wage was removed? You don't see where slavery comes in? If they paid less people would have to work for much longer hours. If not then they'd have to choose between having food, clothes, a place to live, and all other necessities. They could not afford all of them.