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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I[b]magine having to pay some teenager the equivalent of roughly $55k per year just to wash dishes or scrub toilets[/b]:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/workers-labor-advocates-call-for-dc-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-25/4025867/

R.I.P. DC economy. No am I going to pay $100/entree for mediocre food or, $900/night for a garbage hotel simply because businesses have to cover out control labor costs. [/quote]
Teenagers are not during these jobs. They are competing with people who can work all year, without regard to limited hour restrictions. Basically most of these jobs are occupied by adults taking care of a family. With that said, that is a ridiculously high minimum wage salary for so little skills, so the question becomes will salary automatically increase for the skilled labor. [/quote]

If someone with zero education and no skills gets $55k to take out your office trash bins, now your secretary with a bachelor's degree and 10 years experience will demand $110k salary just to afford restaurants that now cost $60/entree.  If the secretary makes $110k, now we gotta pay teacher $200k, the scientist $350k and doctors $1M per year.  The wage inflation spiral will never end until we are paying $1000 for dinner at Applebee's. [/quote]

Has your salary increased since 2009? Things don't cost what they did in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was last raised. Could you maintain your lifestyle if you hadn't had a riase since 2009? [/quote]

Are you really this ignorant? Wages at the bottom have *boomed* in the past few years. The gains for low income people since the pandemic have been nothing less than historic. The minimum wage is increasingly irrelevant because companies have to pay far above it just to get anyone to work for them. [/quote]

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