Let corporations get away with lobbying to raise the minimum wage equally for everybody (as you're advocating), and small businesses go out of business.
You're putting words in my mouth. I'm not for a rise in minimum wage.
As for your idea, of it being tiered, based on the wealth on the employer, it could work, but I was pointing out a potential flaw in it. I think there would need to be data to support the idea, and, if it ended up yielding bad results, reverse the policy.
You'd want to measure unintended consequences of the idea. Things like more skilled (minimum wage) workers opting for big businesses than small businesses, big businesses avoiding/circumventing these laws in some capacity, and so forth.
Whether you stand for it or against it, they're going to raise the minimum wage anyway. If there's anything we should have learned in the time we've supported Q, it's that these big corporate fucks own this country, and they don't like competition, and that's why people like Warren Buffet want the minimum waged increased and are using Democrat politicians to force the issue. Liberal voters operate inside a vacuum; we don't speak up with a better solution, they're going to ram-rod in a terrible option. It's how it works. You don't adapt your strategy to the situation? It's as good as endorsing theirs.
We're given the situation. Now we have to find ways to react to it that turn it to our advantage. Maybe even force the minimum wage issue to backfire on Democrats by being vocal enough to make a stance that corporations pay more become the primary stance of the People.
To be frank, if we don't hit our corporate masters where it hurts sooner rather than later, our Citizens will just end up starved even more, local businesses even more dependent and in servitude to lenders for "paycheck protection," and a concentration of power so extreme in the hands of corporations as to who is hired that we'll all be wishing - if we're fortunate enough to get a job despite likely being outed by tech companies as Q supporters - we had enough to put bread on the table.
That's an interesting point. You're effectively advocating to use some of the sentiment of the left-wing populists against the elites who run the show.
Based on the principle of it, I'd disagree with raising minimum wage in any form (given the ways it may harm small businesses and your average-day person).
As a tactic to fight against the Left, I could see that as acceptable, given the alternative that you lay out.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the consequences, and I'm very focused on how inflation can fuck up our national dollar. But it's clear to me now - whether at state level or national - the minimum wage is going to be hiked up. May as well use it as our bargaining chip - the right is now the "Party of the Workers," even hard-line Marxists realize that, and all you really need to get them on our side is to instill a sense of national pride which they lack, partly due to shit like Amazon.
If minimum wage pay-scale remains level - corporations allowed to pay the same as small businesses - they effectively cheat the system. There's a key here. Corporations aren't willing to pay past a certain amount. That amount is $15. I've followed Amazon's crack-down against employees who attempt to unionize - Bezos doesn't like that shit, he diversifies his workforce for that reason while funding "Woke" political movements, easy math - (diversity + racial discontent = collective weakness). Why work so hard to prevent collective bargaining? These tyrants do not want to lose power, and they derive that power from unchallenged wealth.
The tyrants in this country decided to embrace the left. By any extent, it's an easy one. You infiltrate and subvert the left-movements to become a battering ram to bash down their door. Left already isn't happy - BLM is aware they were used as a money funnel for the Democrat Party. Antifa didn't get paid, so the Democrats cracked down on them for shattering DNC chapter windows. Easy premise. Take Socialism, weaponize it for counter-subversion against Democrat Oligarchs manipulating the masses with "woke" garbage, lead the horde down the path of "Least Harm" toward the civilian population, and undo the entire Democratic Party by playing a game of political "Chicken" where if they back down, they lose all popular support (and we usurp their population), or if they embrace the infiltration, they lose all corporate sponsorship, and can no longer to afford (and we usurp power outright).
Bernie got fucked over too many times - they have zero morale.
Remember too - corporate sponsorship is why Democrat politicians can advertise. If they weren't controlled opposition, they couldn't afford to run on "socialism."
Sounds like a good idea, and using the minimum wage issue might be one of the better ways to weaponize their own populists against them. Perhaps there are others as well.
I would be a bit worried about the potential unintentional consequences, but the general sentiment behind it is solid.
You're putting words in my mouth. I'm not for a rise in minimum wage.
As for your idea, of it being tiered, based on the wealth on the employer, it could work, but I was pointing out a potential flaw in it. I think there would need to be data to support the idea, and, if it ended up yielding bad results, reverse the policy.
You'd want to measure unintended consequences of the idea. Things like more skilled (minimum wage) workers opting for big businesses than small businesses, big businesses avoiding/circumventing these laws in some capacity, and so forth.
Whether you stand for it or against it, they're going to raise the minimum wage anyway. If there's anything we should have learned in the time we've supported Q, it's that these big corporate fucks own this country, and they don't like competition, and that's why people like Warren Buffet want the minimum waged increased and are using Democrat politicians to force the issue. Liberal voters operate inside a vacuum; we don't speak up with a better solution, they're going to ram-rod in a terrible option. It's how it works. You don't adapt your strategy to the situation? It's as good as endorsing theirs.
We're given the situation. Now we have to find ways to react to it that turn it to our advantage. Maybe even force the minimum wage issue to backfire on Democrats by being vocal enough to make a stance that corporations pay more become the primary stance of the People.
To be frank, if we don't hit our corporate masters where it hurts sooner rather than later, our Citizens will just end up starved even more, local businesses even more dependent and in servitude to lenders for "paycheck protection," and a concentration of power so extreme in the hands of corporations as to who is hired that we'll all be wishing - if we're fortunate enough to get a job despite likely being outed by tech companies as Q supporters - we had enough to put bread on the table.
That's an interesting point. You're effectively advocating to use some of the sentiment of the left-wing populists against the elites who run the show.
Based on the principle of it, I'd disagree with raising minimum wage in any form (given the ways it may harm small businesses and your average-day person).
As a tactic to fight against the Left, I could see that as acceptable, given the alternative that you lay out.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the consequences, and I'm very focused on how inflation can fuck up our national dollar. But it's clear to me now - whether at state level or national - the minimum wage is going to be hiked up. May as well use it as our bargaining chip - the right is now the "Party of the Workers," even hard-line Marxists realize that, and all you really need to get them on our side is to instill a sense of national pride which they lack, partly due to shit like Amazon.
If minimum wage pay-scale remains level - corporations allowed to pay the same as small businesses - they effectively cheat the system. There's a key here. Corporations aren't willing to pay past a certain amount. That amount is $15. I've followed Amazon's crack-down against employees who attempt to unionize - Bezos doesn't like that shit, he diversifies his workforce for that reason while funding "Woke" political movements, easy math - (diversity + racial discontent = collective weakness). Why work so hard to prevent collective bargaining? These tyrants do not want to lose power, and they derive that power from unchallenged wealth.
The tyrants in this country decided to embrace the left. By any extent, it's an easy one. You infiltrate and subvert the left-movements to become a battering ram to bash down their door. Left already isn't happy - BLM is aware they were used as a money funnel for the Democrat Party. Antifa didn't get paid, so the Democrats cracked down on them for shattering DNC chapter windows. Easy premise. Take Socialism, weaponize it for counter-subversion against Democrat Oligarchs manipulating the masses with "woke" garbage, lead the horde down the path of "Least Harm" toward the civilian population, and undo the entire Democratic Party by playing a game of political "Chicken" where if they back down, they lose all popular support (and we usurp their population), or if they embrace the infiltration, they lose all corporate sponsorship, and can no longer to afford (and we usurp power outright).
Bernie got fucked over too many times - they have zero morale.
Remember too - corporate sponsorship is why Democrat politicians can advertise. If they weren't controlled opposition, they couldn't afford to run on "socialism."
I follow that.
Sounds like a good idea, and using the minimum wage issue might be one of the better ways to weaponize their own populists against them. Perhaps there are others as well.
I would be a bit worried about the potential unintentional consequences, but the general sentiment behind it is solid.