Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Biggs: members of Congress are advising constituents to not follow US laws" video.
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Reality is not a zero-sum game. New jobs that haven't even been invented, yet, will follow. They always have and they always will. People were horrified that the hand-crafted wheelbarrow market was collapsing, and people were buying wheelbarrows made by mass-production factories. But with the money saved making wheelbarrows more efficiently, there was more wealth for other things. There was no such thing as a job as a "web designer" or "computer programmer" 50 years ago. Think of all the OTHER jobs that exist, now, that didn't, before. Look at how many more people are in media than ever before. Making a living off YouTube, for example.
That being said, arguing for an artificially high minimum wage only HASTENS automation. I say let nature and the free market decide. Don't force the automation forward by pricing humans out of entry-level jobs by requiring they be paid more than the real value of the service or the sustainable wage for such jobs. Minimum-wage jobs are NOT what a responsible adult expects to work at their entire lives and raise a family on. For CENTURIES, if you wanted to support a family, you needed a skill of some sort, and entry-level wages were the least of your concern. The idea of being able to live well off the minimum wage is ridiculous.
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