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Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day
How old is he?

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Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day
Go the other way around and ask if homeless shelters and CPS should be run by armed men with barely 1000 hours of training, most of which focused on how their personal safety comes first by being bombarded with videos of their peers being murdered on the job, and who hold zero personal liability in the use of force.

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day

spacetoaster posted:

Talking with a friend about raising the min wage.

He says we can't just raise the minimum wage because then all the prices will go up and and everyone will be right back in the same boat.

What's the response?

Even if there was a proportional increase, which there wouldn't be because all those businesses that rely on minimum wage for their production and retail chain are the type that constantly look to undercut each other, minimum wage workers are a fraction of the economy and not the totality of the consumer base, plus any additional income they make would trickle up into non-bare-essentials which by the same logic should lead to a price reduction on those.

Price increases on products to keep up with the wage hikes, if any occurred at all, would be in single digit cents.

Additionally, he should think long and hard about how the entire argument for "we can't pay people a living wage" ultimately implies that the economy requires we exploit and underpay people to function.

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day
A deeply in-grained FYGM attitude is impossible to contend with; this guy is straight up evil.

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