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Originally Posted by Lune
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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.
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The people who groom my dog are an elderly couple. They run a small POS establishment, but they are good at what they do and nice as fuck. They have a crew of high school kids that play with all of the dogs in the back.
Do you think CostCo has the same overhead as Groomies? One size fit all doesn't work. If it does, why don't we just raise the federal minimum wage to $100 an hour. The numbers obviously don't matter. In addition, let's just ignore that Texas has a GDP per capita that is less than California or Maryland. Let's just let the federal government, made up of clearly competent people like Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz, step on the states and municipalities and manage microeconomics.
Walmart and CostCo can be forced into a minimum wage. The vast majority of businesses are small and will actually be hurt by these policies. If you want to help Wall Street to the detriment of Main Street, it's a great policy.
The mandated minimum income is a much better idea. Era'viss I think mentioned it. If y'all feel so compelled to guarantee people a minimum standard of living, then do it on the backs of banks and massive multinationals that don't really help the average American. I really don't see how fucking over the people who groom my dog and pay the high school kids who work there for $7.25 an hour accomplishes anything. Most of the kids out here are wealthy anyway. They want the job for spending money and it looks like the easiest thing in the world.
Oh. And finally, if you raise the minimum wage massively, you're going to see increased automation. I know you're smart enough to see that. Hell, no matter what the minimum wage is in the future, that will continue to happen. The minimum income replacing welfare / food stamps is better for this as well.