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$15 an hour minimum wage.
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1327533" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>Not designed by who to not supply an adequate living? Because when it was instituted it very much was! </p><p></p><p>The problem many people seem to have is to think that if you raise the minimum wage most people will become complacent, but that is simply not the case. Typically, people have something driving them and will always strive to improve. They just may not have the resources or intellect to exceed academically, and thus professionally. But unless companies are losing money or barely making even concerning their labor, there is little reason for their talents, however minor and common, to be taken advantage as they have been as of late, because old, a minimum wage used to go a lot farther, as you are no doubt aware.</p><p></p><p>The only people who used to have to work three jobs were trying to get ahead financially. That shouldn't be what is needed to survive, and a minimum wage was designed for a decent living. Again, look it up.</p><p></p><p>Finally, an increase in labor costs will probably drive companies to be more innovative and look to automation. That is not a problem. First, jobs they cannot be replaced in-janitors, hospitality workers, restaurant workers and the like - will still be there to provide a decent wage, and maybe even grow, as more people with discretionary income spend it. Additionally, it will drive out those who are not serious about being employed, say a kid looking for a summer job, and the like. Regular working people shouldn't have their living reduced because a kid wants a summer job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1327533, member: 32753"] Not designed by who to not supply an adequate living? Because when it was instituted it very much was! The problem many people seem to have is to think that if you raise the minimum wage most people will become complacent, but that is simply not the case. Typically, people have something driving them and will always strive to improve. They just may not have the resources or intellect to exceed academically, and thus professionally. But unless companies are losing money or barely making even concerning their labor, there is little reason for their talents, however minor and common, to be taken advantage as they have been as of late, because old, a minimum wage used to go a lot farther, as you are no doubt aware. The only people who used to have to work three jobs were trying to get ahead financially. That shouldn't be what is needed to survive, and a minimum wage was designed for a decent living. Again, look it up. Finally, an increase in labor costs will probably drive companies to be more innovative and look to automation. That is not a problem. First, jobs they cannot be replaced in-janitors, hospitality workers, restaurant workers and the like - will still be there to provide a decent wage, and maybe even grow, as more people with discretionary income spend it. Additionally, it will drive out those who are not serious about being employed, say a kid looking for a summer job, and the like. Regular working people shouldn't have their living reduced because a kid wants a summer job. [/QUOTE]
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