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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yes, if businesses cannot afford to pay folks enough to live on, then boohoo for them. (Hint to the PP that said "that's not how business works" ... if you pay people more money, then they can afford to buy more goods and services. Henry Ford had that one right.)

And equal work for equal pay--that's just such a basic tenet of fairness. If you allow differences in pay based on who we *think* needs the money, well hell, you might as well just give up and go back to the days when women were paid half of what men got based on the assumption that men were supporting a family.[/quote]

Would you also argue that there shouldn't be lower wages to positions like waitstaff with the assumption that tips will account for a portion of their wages?

What about piece workers (I read http://www.latimes.com/news/columnone/la-me-strawberry-pick-20130503-dto,0,2988343.htmlstory about the picking of fruits and veggies and found it enlightening.), the slower ones would do better under a living wage, but the faster ones would likely to worse. Do you worry about that segment of the work force?[/quote]

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