One Year Later, Here's What San Jose Looks Like After Raising the Minimum Wage
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"We're all equal in work, they said" 
"we should all be paid the same, they said"
"all our work is valued equally, they said"
"if I scrape by making the bare minimum I shold be able to live where I want and have enough money to do what I want, they said"
"I can work at mcdonalds/the mail room/serving popcorn for the rest of my life, they said"
"I should be able to live in a 2br/2ba apartment on the main street with a great view for $500 a month, they said"
"if my minimum wage goes up, I should be able to have tons of spending money, they said"
"we should all be paid the same, they said"
"all our work is valued equally, they said"
"if I scrape by making the bare minimum I shold be able to live where I want and have enough money to do what I want, they said"
"I can work at mcdonalds/the mail room/serving popcorn for the rest of my life, they said"
"I should be able to live in a 2br/2ba apartment on the main street with a great view for $500 a month, they said"
"if my minimum wage goes up, I should be able to have tons of spending money, they said"
nikkas get REAL anti-capitalistic when you expose their own lack of value out here 
shyt is funny.
shyt is funny.
man you are just destroying that strawman:yasure:
"We're all equal in work, they said"
"we should all be paid the same, they said"
"all our work is valued equally, they said"
"if I scrape by making the bare minimum I shold be able to live where I want and have enough money to do what I want, they said"
"I can work at mcdonalds/the mail room/serving popcorn for the rest of my life, they said"
"I should be able to live in a 2br/2ba apartment on the main street with a great view for $500 a month, they said"
"if my minimum wage goes up, I should be able to have tons of spending money, they said"
nikkas get REAL anti-capitalistic when you expose their own lack of value out here
shyt is funny.
it's...it's breathtaking...
yeah that's it:youthink:What?
Your lack of an understanding what a wage floor is?
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nikkas get REAL anti-capitalistic when you expose their own lack of value out here
shyt is funny.
I'm anti-capitalistic to begin with but I would be willing to bet that I have more value (by your definition) than you do. Not only to the economy, but probably to society, technological advancement and human innovation as a whole.
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*looks at Forbes list of 10 best paying majors*
The 10 Best-Paying College Majors -- And Why Business Isn't One Of Them - Forbes
Yup, according to these capitalists here, I have more value in this economy than you do, probably by a significant margin.
What does that deflection and smearing have to do with the fact that I think labor deserves more of a share, regardless of work type?
I'll wait.
The 10 Best-Paying College Majors -- And Why Business Isn't One Of Them - Forbes
Yup, according to these capitalists here, I have more value in this economy than you do, probably by a significant margin.
What does that deflection and smearing have to do with the fact that I think labor deserves more of a share, regardless of work type?
I'll wait.
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He has not given us an alternative other than his perverse idea of social engineering. He should have at least went to Mises.org or the CATO institue or some shyt so I could debate some talking points. I explained and everyone else has that the government is subsidizing low wages because those who work for low wages take on a lot of government subsidies. By forcing companies to pay more to the employees, we are no longer subsidizing the labour.
Watch him dance around that premise.
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That's all they do man. Been like that for 100+ years during the modern day labor movements. Same shyt over and over.
You can go back in time and pull out the same arguments you're hearing hear today. All you have to do is replace the labor issues at hand.
This is why I'm on that Extreme far left tip now. You have to go very far left to get a true compromise in the middle from these people. You can't start at the compromise because all they'll do is make a new middle ground.
Minimum wage is at $7-something = Get rid of min. wage!
Move min. wage to $10.10 = Keep at 7!
Min. age at $15 = It should be $10!
Give us total Democratic Socialism and we'll get rid of minimum wage = "Hmmm...let me think about it"
This is why the US even got these very progressive policies passed under FDR. After the depression hit, the people at the top were dead scared of a full-blown communist uprising by the people and labor force. They already had to stomp it out in the 1910s and early 20s so they knew the possibility during the depression was very real.
As much as I expect shyt like that from Anarchos like Dead7, what really surprises me are these so-called liberals and progressives. Once Obama and the Dems mouthed the words "10.10" they somehow formulated in their little brain that it was a fair wage limit. Huffington Post is full of people like this. These people make me sick. The backlash from the left about this Seattle wage increasing is demoralizing. It becomes very clear why we get Clinton and Obama types in the White House pushing their Reagonomics-lite.
i'm on track to make way more than that with this professional degree
...but keep playing. 
and I don't see why minimum wage has to be THAT high at THIS point.
Maybe in 10 years
I have.
I've listed tons of alternatives, but the only one you're stuck on is raising the minimum wage to focus on a concept in which its not supposed to do.
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i'm on track to make way more than that with this professional degree
and I don't see why minimum wage has to be THAT high at THIS point.
Maybe in 10 years
That $15 is LOW.
I've already shown you the statistics about wages being adjusted for inflation. You already know the cost of living has increased and wages have no kept up.
Stop being naive.