How is minimum wage or labor unions different from competing suppliers engaged in price fixing? (The suppliers being workers, and the product, human labor)<p>This is not rhetorical, I want perspectives I may have missed.<p>My initial thought is that it <i>Is</i> similar to price fixing and has negative consequences, <i>but</i> there are perceptions of positive consequences that make it socially unacceptable to not go along with it?