$15/hr minimum wage

[Benton]

(08-18-2018, 12:58 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Has anybody else ever met a dumb person?

Maybe its the lead paint chips they ate as a kid. Maybe its the lead in the water. Maybe its genetics. But some people are just omg you are dumb as f*@(.

Do those types work, grow up, have families and stuff?

When the machines learns how to tell when to push the gas and break and turn the steering wheel. Or when the fries are done and burger is ready...

What happens to the guys who cant follow simple instructions?

When it comes to the minimum wage conversation i cant help but think of intellectual capability.

We had a significant economic shift (and some good years) in this country when we weren't paying people based on intellectual capability but based on job desirability. You could make a good living working in a rough job (steel mills, coal mines, etc) Those jobs are largely gone as we've moved to a service industry. 

Which makes the '$15 for flipping burgers' a valid conversation. Used to, all the money was concentrated in a small sector and they paid well for labor to make them more money. If the system has been manipulated to reduce the cost of labor to increase the amount of service, that income shifts from labor to service.