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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
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Minimum wage increases....
Don't work. It really is that simple. Businesses will just automate jobs or fire people. I get that you don't mind businesses failing, but the goal was to raise wages. If the successful ones automate and the losing enterprises fail entirely, who exactly had a wage increase?
The corporations are the enemy gentlemen. Not the mom and pop shop on your corner employing 15 year olds as cashiers and stock boys ....
Jesus Christ let Bernie sanders talk, you're starting to sound like Hugo Chavez
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Oh shit, you actually listen to their jobs rhetoric.
Meanwhile, CostCo pays all their employees a living wage and they absolutely decimate Wal-Mart and run an extremely profitable enterprise. And entire fucking
countries pay the vast majority of their citizens a living wage, far more than in the United States, and business is booming.
I mean, think about who exactly stands to benefit from telling you the world will end if wages increase? Is it the same people who will shutter an entire store if they hear talk about unions? If your business model relies on paying people in lint and pennies, your business should not exist. You're right that corporations are the enemy, and this behavior is largely corporate-centric, but don't summarily dismiss the entire minimum wage model as not working. It's just not true.