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Originally Posted by Goofle
If they wanted to they already would. But they don't, and I don't think it's a giant leap to predict that they wouldn't keep on as many members of staff if the $15 minimum wage was put in place.
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Is a business doing what it wants always best for the employees?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triang...t_Factory_fire
And to think, businesses who actually treat their customers well will not have to change. There's some kind of way to make that appeal to free market boners but I don't feel like drawing the connection.
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And what's naive about understanding that a lot of people are poor due to their own life decisions?
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That can obviously play a role in it. It becomes naive when you ignore things like being born into poverty, needing a car/education (which are too expensive to buy while having things like food and housing) to get out of that lifestyle, inherited debt through death or marriage, mental illnesses, and extremely competitive markets keeping the inexperienced out of work all contributing to people being in poverty.
Just because it's possible to get yourself out of a situation by working three minimum wage jobs and not living any kind of meaningful life, does not mean that being there is a choice. More people face obstacles that put them in that situation, not by being a lazy bastard who wants to tek all the hard workers moneys and ripoff the welfare state. That's also not to say that there aren't people who take advantage of the system, but that's generally a small minority of the people who use these benefits.