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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The alternative to a higher minimum wage, is UBI. Or societal unrest. Pick.[/quote]

This is pretty much it (or we keep subsidizing these people through our taxes). People want to believe that anyone can gain more skills and get higher pay, but there are those who, for one reason or another, cannot. At the same time, there are jobs that need to get done that are unskilled. It's humane to pay people a living wage because we are talking about our fellow man. We have seen the situation with wage disparity get worse, not better. It will never be perfect, but let's try to make it better. This is a moral imperative as much as anything else. [/quote]

The problem I see most often is that those lobbying for govt to force a $15 minimum wage will not do it on their own. They are the ones paying their own cleaning staff or gardening crew $10/hour and then shouting about how badly they feel for people. No one is stopping you from paying more! Truly they aren’t!

And you only need look at Bernie’s campaign to get a glimpse of what happens when you do! He’s the champion of $15 minimum wage and yet he wasn’t paying his own staff to that standard. And when they finally did, they had to lay off staff in order to do that! It will kill jobs and no one cares![/quote]

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