What's a living wage skill? where exactly is the line?
Because every piece of shit girl in the trump administration went on tv and tanked grocery store workers last year for their essential labour. Certainly if something is essential it's deserving of a living wage
I see we have a Biden supporter in the house.
It would be cool if liberals understood first year economics concepts. If they did, I could actually tolerate talking to them.
But ok, I'll bite:
Why not raise minimum wage to $25 an hour, instead of $15 an hour?
Ok, why not $100 an hour then? How about a MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR. Wait, no - a TRILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR!
Then we could all live in mansions, and employ a million people, and - OH WAIT, SHIT, IF EVERYONE HAD A TRILLION DOLLARS FROM ONE HOUR'S WORTH OF WORK, NO ONE WOULD EVER NEED TO WORK AGAIN.
And it's exactly taking the minimum wage argument to absurdity that shows why it doesn't work at ANY pay level.
Minimum wage won't work if it's raised to $100 an hour. Even dumb shit leftist Biden supporters *should* have enough IQ to grasp that [but apparently, even that isn't always the case]. So if you can understand why minimum wage can't work at $100 - or $1,000, or $10,000 - an hour [any huge number], then it's not that difficult to understand why minimum wage has the same impact [inflationary impact on prices, reduction in jobs growth, if not an outright increase in unemployment] at *any wage increase*.
I swear, there is a leftist in my city who myself and a friend of mine who is a banker [who has an undergraduate degree in economics] have explained this to literally a dozen times each or more over the past ~15 years, and he STILL doesn't get it.
We've literally simplified the argument to a form close to "2+2=4", and he still doesn't get it.
But I guess that's how liberals think. That all you have to do is make minimum wage $15 an hour and BOOM, NO MORE POVERTY EVER AGAIN.
Or just confiscate all guns - it's not like governments with all the guns could exploit or oppress people who unilaterally disarm themselves or anything like that.
And "just make healthcare free!!!"
Tell that to the 450,000 Canadians who have had their elective surgeries cancelled because "COVID is overwhelming our hospitals."
LMAO - our hospital in Thunder Bay is empty, but to keep the facade of COVID being scary, our scumbag premier has cancelled elective surgeries in Ontario "until COVID ends" [Premier Doug Ford, who is a Conservative, but does literally NOTHING differently than the federal Liberal Party].
"Just wear a mask" became "Just postpone your mastectomy" pretty fast. No one could have predicted that.
The point I'm making is that leftists think everything is solved by giving free stuff to people. Meanwhile, I had a doctor's appointment scheduled 38 days ago, that got cancelled because my doctor was sick after taking his second dose of his Phizer "vaccine".
He finally contacted me today, and said he has room for me tomorrow.
That's Canadian "free healthcare" for you.
My point is, leftists oversimplify everything, when if they actually bothered to study the ideas they propose, they would realize that they fall apart under the slightest scrutiny.
Minimum wage has been completely refuted for at least 60 years now. Every single meta-analysis has rejected it as a workable policy, and yet people STILL talk about nonsense like a "living wage".
This is why leftists constantly push for censorship. Because assuming any level of freedom of speech at all, all the nonsense that leftists believe falls apart like a house of cards when examined in even the tiniest way possible.
I respect anyone who works for a living [especially in this woke era where you get fired for having a kindergartener's knowledge on biological sex], but living wage - like minimum wage - just doesn't work.
All leftists do is cherry pick examples of countries that have a higher concentration of White people and use it as "proof" that socialism is better.
"Look at how amazing Canada is - they don't have as much gun violence as the USA because they have stricter gun laws!!"
Oh gee, I wonder if the USA may have more gun violence than Canada because the USA has a 13% Black population that commits 56% of all gun crime?
Nope, it can't be THAT.
But that's what moron liberals do - they take an apples and onions comparison between nations, then claim socialism is why one country is better.
All the while, these same fools want to import the third world, which will cause MORE suppression of wages, and MORE violence - exactly what these liberal jackasses claim to be against.
And of course - all these liberal supporters of "living wages" buy electronic devices and other goods made from near slave labour in China.
Because heaven forbid a liberal or leftist DARE to practice what they preach. Nope - they can't have that!