Minimum wage, Taiwanese style

Another LTE yesterday about the minimum wage. It all sounds very familiar when you read this line:

The fact that this pittance has not risen for 10 years is another shocking expose of this country's values.

But the letter is actually about the minimum wage in Taiwan, some of the arguments around which seem to be the same as they are in Greensboro even though theirs is currently a minimum monthly wage rather than hourly. An interesting soundbyte:

It is no excuse to quote company bosses who complain about competition from China and other Asian countries. The Japanese learned this lesson, and through hard work they developed high quality products while managing to pay a decent wage.