RE: Partisan Prevarication

The market used to be completely unregulated, and healthy competition existed,

Even the Amish have MOBSTER ETHICS.

Large groups of brainwashed/enslaved operating on the FEUDAL HIERARCHY model have dominated individual "freedom" for thousands of years.

When it comes to the de-regulation actually implemented, such measures work only in favour of big companies

I agree.

In order for de-regulation to work in favour of small businesses, such measures must include reducing minimum wage...

Isn't it funny that Disney doesn't have to pay its employee's overtime if they call them "entertainers"?

And don't start talking about "minimum wage" without explaining how restaurant servers still get paid $2.13 an hour.

You seem fixated on this "mobster ethics," which is an oxymoron, but let me break down my thinking for you: if there are no regulations on the market, but there are laws that prohibit people from intimidating each other (such as the rich intimidating the poor), then healthy competition can exist. If those laws are not enforced for whatever reason (bribery immediately comes to mind), then competition is removed. This has nothing to do with market regulations, and everything to do with violation of basic human rights. The market is simply one casualty of this breakdown. The market doesn't need an impartial referee, society at large does - unless, of course, the citizens are allowed to be their own arbiters of justice (as opposed to being disarmed and thus being made dependent on the government). If you couldn't gather, I'm every bit the anarchist gun enthusiast that @jacobtothe is, I just don't make nearly as much content on the subject.

Now then, regarding the exceptions to current minimum wage laws: first, Disney is a terrible example. Disney is one of the many lobbying giants, and is almost single-handedly responsible for corrupting copyright law as we know it. Besides, I'm sure you're familiar with the old saying "the law is like a spiderweb: the flies get caught, the hornets fly straight through." The same goes for the restaurant industry at large, because while there are plenty of small restaurants, the industry itself is huge, and most of the restaurant business is controlled by a handful of large companies. Of course, the problems with the entire food service industry are too numerous to go into here, so unless you want to write an article about such and move this discussion to your blog, I would suggest not even touching that one.