Comments by "SciFi Realism" (@scifirealism5943) on "Flurry of minimum wage hikes could bring unintended consequences, economists warn" video.

  1.  @Martini4466  poverty wage jobs.
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  2. ​ @Mywifesaidicould minimum wage jobs are dead-end and give you no skills.
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  3. Exactly
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  4. @Martini4466  that's the fallacy of relative privation. Just because it's worse in other countries doesn't negate or lessen the magnitude of suffering here.
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  5. @Martini4466  did I say immune to suffering? I said there being more severe problems doesn't lessen dealing with problems relatively not as bad. People having no healthcare in 3rd world countries doesn't make poor people only having healthcare through medicaid or being in the medicaid gap, somehow good by comparison.
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  6.  @lars2894  that's wrong on the company part.
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  7. @@RealHumanUser times change. It's time for our values to change too.
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  8. @RealHumanUser  except FF jobs replaced manufacturing jobs, and the same people who oppose a living wage also oppose free college which would allow poor people to escape poverty. And low wage employers don't pay the full tuition for college either.
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  9. You want poverty then
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  10. @neilkurzman4907  what he is saying is he more concerned with paying $5 for a hamburger than lifting millions out of poverty.
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  11.  @Joshua-m1q  inflation poses a real risk, yes. But you're more concerned with mitigating the risk of inflation than embracing the opportunity of lifting workers out of poverty and providing them with more bargaining power.
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  12.  @Hunter-th2fr  that's an acceptable risk
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  13.  @Martini4466  I don't recall advocating for socialism. That terms only comes up when the government helps poor people. Nice try.
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  14. Entry-level jobs are dead-end and give you no skills.
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  15. @@AmericanScout-USA LOL.
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  16. Acting can be done by 16 year olds and pay millions.
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  17. @@AmericanScout-USA wow.
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  18. Except low wage workers have no bargaining power. They would use welfare but not in the current economic climate
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  19. This is a moral issue to you, not an economic one: you think it's immoral to pay people more money than their low-level abilities entitle them to earn
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  20. Yep
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  21. ​@robertweber1291 times change. So do values. How about get mad at greedy corporations, not poor people wanting to eat
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  22.  @robertweber1291  not everyone can afford college.
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  23.  @robertweber1291  you also admit minimum wage jobs are dead-end and give you no skills.
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  24.  @robertweber1291  if a company offers you health insurance if you're full-time, hires you, then you forces you to be part time to avoid this, then yes, the corporation is greedy.
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  25. Exactly.
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  26.  @Jackson_M5  that's a moral issue.
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  27.  @Jackson_M5  you're more concerned with paying $40 for a pizza than lifting workers out of poverty. That shows me how poorly you view minimum wage workers.
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  28.  @Jackson_M5  and that you don't deem poverty intolerable
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  29. @axe863  inflation poses a real risk, as prices often rise when wages rise. And unemployment might increase from workers making more. There might even be increases in automation and outsourcing. The truth of our politics lies in the risks we refuse to accept, and it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that we find unacceptable. We are not willing to empower workers to reject dead-end jobs and crappy wages.
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  30. @axe863  corporations want to depress wages by disempowering workers, whether immigration exists or not. And corporations support illegal immigrantion because what they want is access to labor forces who can't afford to argue and will thus work very hard for very low rates of pay.
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  31. @axe863  no I'm saying what risks we're not willing to take, shows us where our priorities lie. You and many others are not willing to take the risks in fighting against poverty, in empowering/balancing the power differential between employees and employers. Which means poverty isn't intolerable like rape is. That is what this minimum wage debate really reveals.
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  32. Can you are more concerned about mitigating the risk of food shortages in unemployment? Than in ending poverty
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  33.  @wanderlustandsparkle4395  you're a troll
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  34. Exactly
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  35. Exactly
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  36. You're more bothered paying $11 for a big Mac than abolishing the poverty of millions.
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  37. Not everyone can be promoted out of a low skill.
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