Message from @armitage

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2020-03-09 06:33:33 UTC  

Why not, you could get a simpler and more fun job at mcdonalds then being a garbage collector

2020-03-09 06:33:39 UTC  

what's stopping them from starting a trash collecting business and making a billion dollars annually

2020-03-09 06:33:55 UTC  

having to start off paying their employees 15 dollars an hour

2020-03-09 06:34:01 UTC  

the economy isn't perfectly fluid it's complex so anecdotes don't work too well

2020-03-09 06:34:19 UTC  

it may force trash collection companies to raise wages but probably not

2020-03-09 06:34:45 UTC  

see now you get it people will raise their wages to those unlikeable jobs causing competition causing inflation

2020-03-09 06:35:08 UTC  

nah you're not listening it's not basic economics

2020-03-09 06:35:34 UTC  

that's a naive view even the economists don't fully know the repercussions

2020-03-09 06:35:42 UTC  

that's why I said look at what it actually does

2020-03-09 06:35:46 UTC  

okay people im open minded tell me where i went wrong
if im wrong ill admit it

2020-03-09 06:36:12 UTC  

maybe i am looking at it through this basis view

2020-03-09 06:36:12 UTC  

Your not

2020-03-09 06:37:50 UTC  

Its a huge complex system of how many people are in the states, how high are the taxes, what laws and buildings and power electricity ect. Factors into the minimum wage, its not as simple as "oh this one state has minimum wage, why not make ours 15$ an hour!!!"

2020-03-09 06:38:08 UTC  

the supply of jobs is limited and so is the worker pool for starters

2020-03-09 06:38:24 UTC  

Keep in mind starting a buisiness cannot be the same in different states

2020-03-09 06:38:25 UTC  

so everyone isn't going to quit their job to work at mcdonalds

2020-03-09 06:38:35 UTC  

I did

2020-03-09 06:38:41 UTC  

sure, if they are getting paid more than 15 dollars

2020-03-09 06:38:52 UTC  

And got a job at praxair

2020-03-09 06:38:59 UTC  

yeah so the point is there's a billion variables at play and you gave one

2020-03-09 06:39:10 UTC  

you're ignoring the unemployed being given much larger incentive

2020-03-09 06:39:23 UTC  

i gave a pretty legitimate example

2020-03-09 06:39:33 UTC  

you're ignoring all that money going back into the economy because the poor live paycheck to paycheck

2020-03-09 06:39:54 UTC  

yeah but you have blinders on and aren't looking at the bigger picture

2020-03-09 06:40:02 UTC  

So lower more government funded programs and lower the taxes

2020-03-09 06:40:10 UTC  

Or better yet

2020-03-09 06:40:11 UTC  

im asking for you to paint that bigger picture

2020-03-09 06:40:15 UTC  

DEPART ILLEGALS

2020-03-09 06:40:35 UTC  

Or cut back a lil on military spending

2020-03-09 06:41:18 UTC  

there isn't a way to raise it and have everything a perfect utopian dream the point is improving the lives of the lowest wage earners at the minor expense of businesses having to navigate a new system

2020-03-09 06:41:36 UTC  

it's a tradeoff that's why I asked why you even want a minimum wage

2020-03-09 06:41:49 UTC  

you could go full libertarian and pay people $2/hour

2020-03-09 06:42:10 UTC  

the point is the minimum is there for good reason and you're basically arguing against that

2020-03-09 06:42:39 UTC  

i did say i was for a minimum wage i just dont think it should be a livable wage

2020-03-09 06:42:46 UTC  

because the minimum is too low for people to live and too high for stupid businesses that would exist if it were $1/hour minimum

2020-03-09 06:43:21 UTC  

don't you care about my sweatshop that pays $1/hour because I can't even start it

2020-03-09 06:43:54 UTC  

speaking of... plenty of places pay less than the minimum as it is go find a mexican without paperwork

2020-03-09 06:44:23 UTC  

Isnt that what trump was preaching when he said illegals are taking the jobs of Americans

2020-03-09 06:45:15 UTC  

yeah but it's worse because he's talking H1-B hiring people from every country on earth but america

2020-03-09 06:45:24 UTC  

most of them send money home to their families it's fucked

2020-03-09 06:45:34 UTC  

so yeah trump is 100% right