This discussion seems a bit of a side-track to your main point. These are just examples to illustrate that intuition is often wrong—you’re not focused on the minimum wage per se. Potentially it could have been better if you had chosen more uncontroversial examples to avoid these kinds of discussions.
Maybe, I meant to pick examples where I thought the consensus of economists was clear (in my mind it’s very clearly the consensus that having a low minimum wage has no employment effects.)
If you want to make a point about science, or rationality, then my advice is to not choose a domain from contemporary politics if you can possibly avoid it. If your point is inherently about politics, then talk about Louis XVI during the French Revolution. Politics is an important domain to which we should individually apply our rationality—but it’s a terrible domain in which to learn rationality, or discuss rationality, unless all the discussants are already rational.
This discussion seems a bit of a side-track to your main point. These are just examples to illustrate that intuition is often wrong—you’re not focused on the minimum wage per se. Potentially it could have been better if you had chosen more uncontroversial examples to avoid these kinds of discussions.
Maybe, I meant to pick examples where I thought the consensus of economists was clear (in my mind it’s very clearly the consensus that having a low minimum wage has no employment effects.)
Fwiw I think this is good advice.