A year later $15 Seattle Min. Wage Shows "Little or No Evidence" of Price Increases

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

People in Birmingham still have bills to pay don't they? Wage growth in Birmingham is still stagnant isn't it?

Seattle was already one of the most expensive cities in the country.

I don't understand why people can't accept that different parts of the country can't accept $15.

But hey, these are the same people who didn't accept that "hey if we're as liberal as possible they'll vote for us"

I warned people about this specifically last September.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Let's give it another year...I don't think everyone is convinced

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Seattle was already one of the most expensive cities in the country.

I don't understand why people can't accept that different parts of the country can't accept $15.

But hey, these are the same people who didn't accept that "hey if we're as liberal as possible they'll vote for us"

I warned people about this specifically last September.

Still think in the irrelevant liberal/conservative binary trope and wonder why your candidate lost to trump brehs

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Guess they aren't taking into account housing

Wait until all them leases are up. white folks going to clean up

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This was written before the rise of automation

Automation is a terrible argument against minimum wage.

You don't have to pay a robot wages. And technology always improving, rapidly. So if a robot is going to beat you, he gonna beat you no matter WHAT your wage be.

You drop wages from $10/hour to $5/hour just to beat a robot, then by next year they're going to have that robot beating you out at $5/hour too. It's just too easy to beat someone on costs when you have to pay the person EVERY DAY and you only have to pay the robot for initial cost and upkeep.

If a robot can do your job, get another job. Humans shouldn't be doing robot-ass work anyway. It's only since the industrial revolution started and everything became this assembly line nonsense that the idea of a robot replacing a real man's work would have been possible.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Automation is a terrible argument against minimum wage.

You don't have to pay a robot wages. And technology always improving, rapidly. So if a robot is going to beat you, he gonna beat you no matter WHAT your wage be.

You drop wages from $10/hour to $5/hour just to beat a robot, then by next year they're going to have that robot beating you out at $5/hour too. It's just too easy to beat someone on costs when you have to pay the person EVERY DAY and you only have to pay the robot for initial cost and upkeep.

If a robot can do your job, get another job. Humans shouldn't be doing robot-ass work anyway. It's only since the industrial revolution started and everything became this assembly line nonsense that the idea of a robot replacing a real man's work would have been possible.

You just contradicted yourself.

First you said autimation is a terrible argument then you say people shouldnt be taking these jobs anyway.

Also you do have to pay a robot wages because the entire industry is moving to a subscription based payment system.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You just contradicted yourself.

First you said autimation is a terrible argument then you say people shouldnt be taking these jobs anyway.

If you think that's a contradiction, then you didn't understand the argument.

I'm not arguing that automation won't take jobs. They WILL take jobs. I'm arguing that they will take those jobs regardless of wages.

Also you do have to pay a robot wages because the entire industry is moving to a subscription based payment system.

Same logic still applies. Tech moves too fast - if the robot subscription costs $100/day this year, it'll be down to $60/day by next year to do the same work, and $40/year after that. You can't undercut it with lower wages because the tech is never going to be stagnant, it'll improve and it'll improve MUCH faster than a human without tech can improve.

You gotta learn to do things that robots can't do. You're never going to stay cheaper than one.


p.s. - this is also a good Basic Income argument, but that's for another time.

 

[DEAD7]

Good for Seattle...


Oh and hows that gentrification going?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

I like how a bunch of economists are like "$15/hr has little to no effect on inflation or employment and provides direct economic benefits"

And people still run in here "there's no way Birmingham, AL could handle $15!"