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Originally Posted by OneHungLo
That's the problem, people like AOC don't run businesses and really don't understand the effects it has on the economy. Raising the min wage to $15 an hr., things will end up costing more. Goods will rise, rents will rise and will push more people into welfare and housing programs. Then you'll have to tax the hell out of the people to pay for these social programs. It's an ugly cycle that won't work. Leftist policies do not work.
Let's just jump full bore into $100 dollar an hour wage so we can just destroy it, get over it, and never do it again.
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You forgot to mention the part where businesses replace low level unskilled workers with automation due to artificially high salaries. Why hire a bunch of teens to flip burgers when a business can replace them with a
burger flipping robot?