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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Idiots.

Next time you go into Giant or Home Depot and you notice that half of the checkout lanes have been replaced with self-serve stations, you will see what a $15 minimum wage looks like in action.

Next time you walk into McDonalds or Starbucks and place your order on an ipad, you will see what a $15 minimum wage looks like in action.

Are people really this stupid?[/quote]

Yes. They are.

They see absolutely zero correlation between cost or employment and prices, or automation and job losses. They see the entire world through the filter of feelings and pity. The people who are the proponents of this are killing the jobs of the people they see themselves as the benefactors and protectors of. So yes, they are that stupid. [/quote]

Can you tell me your proposed alternative solution, then? Because any solution to the issue of people trying to live on minimum-wage jobs - and there are many of them, not just teenagers - will cost money, whether in direct salary costs or less tangible costs. Telling them they simply "should have gone to college" is useless.

Unless you feel they should simply suffer for being born poor, which is the underlying mood of all these threads.

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I can't force you to understand this, if you lack the capacity to. But it suffices to say that no one ever intended a minimum wage job to be what someone "lives" on. It's a minimum. A wage for someone just starting, with absolutely zero skill or prior experience. It's what someone starting the most basic job conceivable make on their very first day, with no experience.  That's what minimum wage is.  [/quote]

NP.  And we can't force you to understand that, regardless of your intentions, adults are often unable to progress beyond minimum wage jobs, and not just because they were too lazy to go to college, or too incompetent to be promoted.  The minimum wage is what people are living on, and not just because of their "poor choices."  So the minimum wage needs to be livable.  [/quote]

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