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| wolfy42 07/19/20 6:53:29 PM #63: | GanonsSpirit posted... You don't know what you're talking about. Cost of living keeps going up regardless of minimum wage changes. They don't have much to do with each other. Two things have happened in the last 5 years or so. The min wage has increased DRASTICALLY faster then ever before in US history. The cost of living has increased DRASTICALLY faster than ever before in us history. Perhaps they are un-related....but in areas where one did not happen, the other didn't either. There are exceptions where the cost of living went up FIRST drastically (like the bay area) and then min wage went up, but then the cost of living went up AGAIN to compensate. There may be somewhere out there where the min wage went up and cost of living did not increase to match it, I have not heard of it, but it's possible, but at this point it would be an aberration, or exception. Of COURSE cost of living goes up without min wage changing, it has forever, but it was a slow steady process for the most part. The rapid increase in min wage though caused an extreme spike in cost of living in the same areas, and from what I have seen, the cost of living increase not only invalidated the min wage increase all together, it made life much harder for everyone who wasn't making min wage in the first place (other then the extremely wealthy who probably didn't even notice it.) --- Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at." Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing." ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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