What AOC Doesn't Get About Wages and Human Worth

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is again trying to teach deep moral lessons using dubious “facts.”

On Monday, she took to Twitter to complain that “croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE,” yet “some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive?”

After critics noted that you can get the pastry for just $3.29 at the Au Bon Pain in Terminal C, she countered that they were “making my point for me. It’s not an argument against the price of the croissant — it’s about human worth.” But if the price doesn’t matter, why mention it at all?

Then, too, the minimum wage in the city hit $15 on Jan. 1, and most La Guardia workers have a $19 minimum under rules the Port Authority adopted last September.

Anyway, AOC’s either ignoring or ignorant of the opposing argument: Your wage is no kind of measure of your “human worth”; it’s just what your employer can pay — and if she can’t afford $15, then there’s no job at all.