• Javi_in_4k
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    3 months ago

    Because wage increases don’t actually hurt anyone. They actually grow the economy

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      But how does it work when the median pay in one place in California is $160,000, and in the other it’s $35,000? (Real numbers. Also bearing in mind that $20 on a 40 hour work week is $41,600/yr.) The economic structure of each town, village, or city is not the same. This makes people unable to buy food, or medicine. We sacrifice population to fix the wrongs of the past in an irresponsible way.

      And by the way, I’m pro minimum wage increase so hard, it is stupidly broken. It seems though, that such dramatic increases at a large scale in a short time would forget the small communities and basically uproot them into chaos. Just so Apple engineers can go to work with their breakfast burrito made correctly, finally.