More to the point, if the employers are able to negotiate to hire more workers at a lower salary that will be more expansionary than if union contracts, minimum wage laws or social convention leads them to hire fewer workers at higher salaries.

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What I do know is that questions of intention and identity rather than social convention or etiquette are what lubricated these interactions.

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