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i am harry posted:This is a pretty big thing in and of itself (which is probably why it has its own thread)..but the two topics are inextricably linked. Very soon we will need to really start valuing human beings as something more than workers. That and people who are saying it have absolutely no idea what percentage of the work at McDonalds/etc is done by people who can be replaced by a kiosk, or of what small a percentage of their costs are labor. The people soon to be replaced by automation and the people at minimum wage have some overlap but it's less than you'd think.
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Do I have this right? Is it, you know, data?
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asdf32 posted:It's possible. Now why do you think that will happen? I suspect that the current historical low of wages as a percentage of corporate revenue is not unrelated to the historical highs of profits, so it seems a useful place to target. I admittedly can't prove it, but minimum wage increases, even if your predictions are correct, will have a null effect at worst so there's little harm in trying. If minimum wage increases don't do it, I'm open to the idea of moving something more coercive, but I'll give businesses a chance to react to a gentler nudge first.
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Zeitgueist posted:Yes the US during WW2 couldn't weld to plates together, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship#Hull_cracks
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