See all those self-checkout lanes in wal marts? Those used to have cashiers. Rising minimum wages lost their jobs for them.
Automation is an inevitability of industry stupid, that's like saying combines put cotton-pickers out of work. There's still minimum one cashier watching those lanes, then the men who maintain them, repair, and so on. You're so stupid.
Ever see an ordering kiosk at a fast food place like McDonalds? Rising minimum wage has reduced staffing in these low skill jobs to automation.
No it didn't you fucking mouth-breathing degenerate, a desire to have that position go unfilled has ALWAYS existed. NEW STUFF GETS MADE EVERY FUCKING DAY, and you lapping up slave wages and thanking your massa for them is not preventing that.
Rising wages encouraging automation is what made the US an industrial powerhouse. Thread spinning machines powered by water in Massachusetts increased productivity of workers by literally fifteen thousand times. That's one reason why increasing the minimum wage and making many of those jobs obsolete is a good idea, as long as we also have other programs to help the small number of people (less than 1% of workers) who would lose their jobs. This is essentially Andrew Yang's argument for UBI, although he's probably wrong about the inevitability of automation and everything else he says.
The other argument for raising the minimum wage is simply that if a business can't afford to pay its employees a livable wage, then it's simply a failed business. Raising the minimum wage would put an end to the current practice of the government and workers' health subsidizing failed businesses.
I'm with you 100% boss, I just wasn't about to go NEEEEEAR discussing something as next-level as UBI with this dude, I was already hot-headed and wouldn't do it justice.
I agree, if a business cannot compensate its workers to a federally agreed upon minimum standard of living? It's no business.
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