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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What a spectacular set of false-framings & DarkTriad-business-doesn't-exist-for-workers-so-they'll-just-automate ( no fucking kidding, Duh ) drivel.

Didn't even suggest controlling for confounding-factors re the unemployment rate..

& the line about

minwage jobs aren't meant to be full time

Seriously?

MANY lives can't get anything else, & HAVE to live on minwage..

Gaslighting.

Gaslighting masquerading as scientific-level facts.

Minwage NEEDS to track cost-of-living, different for different demographic-regions, rural vs city, small-city vs big-city, etc.

The arbitrary, ad-hoc, hotchpotch idiocy of legislations is part of the problem.

Minwage should be set automatically to meet cost-of-actual-living, at all scales, from nationally down to the county/suburb.

& people who pretend that businesses are powerless to raise prices when costs climb .. also are gaslighting.

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