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Originally Posted by uh-oh
you understand normal people start businesses right?
not every business is an evil money hungry organization out to keep people down like the us government. some are just a woman wanting to open a restaurant or a dude putting together a landscaping company etc etc etc. what gives you the right to mandate they pay a wage they can't afford?
but realistically this is gonna be a useless back and forth because i think the minimum wage should be abolished. we are pretty much at the opposite ends on this issue
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because of the third section of the post you just quoted, did you skip over that? it's a policy aimed to help the working class and small businesses the most. small businesses in america have been destroyed by amazon and walmart because amazon and walmart are all people can afford, they also absorb all of the jobs and pay as little as possible. when you give the working class a significant raise they all have more disposable income, and are much more likely to choose a small business over walmart/amazon because they can afford to have the type of economic ethics that can support community endeavors instead of the cheapest monopolies. an example local restaurants will get more customers because people won't be forced to resort to fast food and can afford to eat out or spend more on groceries at their local supermarket. etc. the velocity of the money grows
corporations used to have limits. income inequality was smaller then, obviously. there's no reason that resources should be allowed to be harvested extracted or hoarded at an infinite level. we have finite resources it makes no sense. each billion accrued by an individual extracts an amount of resources that could sustain 1,000 people for 16 years(based on average income, 3,000 would survive at a poverty level). this is why the underclass grows, this is why poverty grows, it's a result of infinite growth for those in a position to continue to consolidate power and control at the top while doling out the same abysmal minimum wage for decades and cost of living continues to grow dramatically