Bloodbath in CA from raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hour
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Maybe it's the European in me speaking but every single full time job needs to pay a living wage, a life for a life. If the employer can't afford to pay a living wage, that means there's not enough demand, that job doesn't need doing after all, they should close up shop and everyone involved should find something more useful to do.
Historically, increasing the minimum wage has always resulted in the same thing: employers complain and threaten to leave, then grudgingly pay up because leaving is more expensive than slightly reduced profits, and the entire working class's living standards improve as the higher pay trickles up to more complicated jobs. More purchasing power stimulates the economy and everyone is better off.
why not pay $1,000,000 per hour minimum wage?
Why not pay them $0.01 an hour for 100 hour weeks since age 10 like in the 19th century? Better yet, pay them in company scrip that they can only spend in the company store. Just think how cheap the burgers would be! That's what no regulation leads to.
projection!
classic. I asked you a simple question and you responded with a paragraph and never answered it.
want to try again?
BTW I'm pretty sure they're weren't any fast food places in the 19th century
What you did is called a straw man fallacy. Want to try an actual argument?