Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Uh-Oh: Was the $15 Minimum Wage Just DESTROYED?!" video.

  1.  @MegaJared2  What kind of store are you running in a town of only 200 people? Why do you have three people only working part-time? I'm guessing so you can avoid being responsible for or paying for any of the benefits being a full-time employee brings, but that's because I'm a cynical asshole. I guess this hypothetical business owner doesn't have to worry about how people making around 600 to 900 dollars a month (after 25% is taken out for taxes - you're not paying them off the books are you?) will pay for health insurance or any of the other expenses of life and they should all be grateful for the scraps you can thrown them. Or are these just supposed to be supplementary forms of income to some other job in your town of 200 people? You see, you're basically justifying the minor exploitation of three people in order to avoid doing right by any of them. That's shit thing to do people and is the kind of business that decimates communities and leaves them with a population base of 200 people. And another town bites the dust as the kids move away as quickly as they can to better jobs and more exciting lives in the cities. Drug dealers and meth cooks and criminals move into the abandoned homes of dead people with no relatives to take care of the mostly worthless property in a largely abandoned town, all armed to the teeth. No worries though, big ag corps will eventually be given the fallow land to grow GMO crops to feed the big cities and exploding world population once all you rural folk die off and get murdered to death by roving bands of marauding Mobile Homeless. ("The Mobile Homeless" might be a new term - if so DIBS! We're going to see a hell of a lot more of it as rent keeps going up)
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  2. We need to be making the distinction for a lot of issues as being in Urban and Rural communities. When it comes to minimum wage in 2025 (unless the cost of housing and general living reverses) it will probably need to be $12.50 per hour in rural areas and $25 per hour to be able to live in urban communities - and in those urban megacities where the cost of living is even higher adjust upwards on a case by case basis. This will also allow more tax revenue to be generated to help the people who are not working or underemployed. That is, as long as the world doesn't go completely of the rails. Lot's of opportunity to get a precarious time in history really right or really wrong.
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