Current Events > Minimum wage should be raised to encourage automation

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Think about it. Why do we still have cashiers? Because their pay is too little. I know that a lot of businesses pay go towards labor and that we are overall trending towards automation for a lot of things but increasing the minimum wage quickly will also increase research into automation, and change society for the better. If we can make labor more expensive, there will be more incentive to replace cashiers.

While new jobs are popping into existence regularly, there's definitely a massive incoming surplus of unskilled labour. It won't be enough to spark something like the Russian Revolution, at least not for a while, but it will be problematic enough to create hordes of homeless people running amok, who can easily become thieving drug addicts.
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