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Neoconkers posted...

always find it interesting when people discuss this that they can just rattle off a list of people they feel are "unworthy" of a living wage. maybe you should ask yourself why you hate cashiers or fast food workers so much that you think they shouldn't be able to live off 40 hours' wage a week

You are skipping the logistical part and going straight to emotional.

In the short term these peoples lives will improve, albeit briefly as the market will catch up to the wage hike and everything goes up. It is so easy to say that if you don't support doubling the minimum wage then you hate poor people. So stupid. So typical. "If you are X then you ARE Y there is NO logical argument between!!" Like seriously grow up and think, don't just spit in our faces and tell us we are evil because we disagree. Minimum wage is not how we solve poverty. Technology, policy and intelligent use of welfare for those unable to work--that's how. For evidence of this, look no further than the world economy. There are EFFECTS to minimum wage hikes beyond the immediate benefit that will, in the end, make it even more difficult for unskilled workers in our economy. Young people. People with low IQs. Recovering addicts. Ex-convicts. It's already extremely difficult for these people to enter the workforce.

Go look up how far the average GDP in 3rd world countries has risen in the last 70 years. There is progress around the world.

ALSO; perhaps it is the inflation itself (from unaccountable banking systems) that is the problem.

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