Posted on 12/23/2019 8:22:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SCOTUS has upheld this many times.
They simply are promoting this amendment this to harvest class action lawsuits to enrich themselves.
Scum sucking dogs
Correction: Democratic Socialism
necessary to become the more “ Advanced Society “ Sandy Ocsio Cortez describes.
People get to vote to for free stuff.
Hey, they get the orders right and you don’t have to wait for them to stop chatting with their colleagues!
Of course, a lot of those low-value jobs hang around because we’ve brought in illegals to fill them so well for so little that the industry has no incentive to invest in the capital and tech to make their workers more efficient.
Ag, restaurant kitchens, and “landscaping” are three good examples of that.
Personal care jobs can’t yet be replaced because they have had the low-skill, illegal labor to make such investments impractical and unneeded.
Had an “America first” worker economy been in effect, you would have seen more innovation in that sector by now.
If Alphabet weren’t a CIA front developing war machines, their robots would well be doing this by now. But such humanoid replacements are probably not what’s needed.
All you really need are better lifts to get people in and out of wheelchairs and beds, on and off of toilets (yes, those automated spray and dry Japanese toilets could be perfect!), and effectively stripped and dressed around bathing.
$15/hr. will most likely bring some retirees back to work for some extra $.
They will outperform the teens and take all their jobs.
Tyranny of the majority, huh? There’s not enough of them to worry about their vote, so they don’t matter? The Democrats had a fifty year run of viability as a party because they successfully pandered to blacks.
Besides which, small businesses are the key to upward economic mobility. Minimum wage is not and never will be. No one with an identifiable skill or marketable education makes minimum wage. Try paying your plumber minimum wage.
I wouldn’t think they represent a “tiny group of voters”; they have families and friends like anyone else.
True, if they can get a job...
If anything many will be off public assistance after this raise.
Wow....I thought you were smarter than that....
One problem with the investment required to automate functions is that it often removes the small businesses from the field; they can’t absorb the costs of the automation, then can’t compete when larger competitors do so.
So you think the industry can/will somehow stay inefficient?
How are you going to pull that one off—other than by importing cheap labor?
Some automation actually makes it easier for small businesses to keep up, because it obviates the need to have as much hired expertise.
The investment in the machinery is more difficult for them. I’ve seen that in industries with tightening environmental requirements; some gas stations simply got rid of their pumps altogether (remaining as mechanic garages), but far more simply closed. The same with drycleaners; a few remained open as “drop stores” (sending the clothing to larger competitors for actual cleaning), while plenty simply closed.
For some situations that is true. But cloud accounting services, for example, make it possible for “business stupid” people to open shop.
Amazon and Ebay made it possible for all types of new mini-retailers to thrive.
Sure - some advances are making it easier for the small players. My point was that when discussing automation (outside of a software sense), the purchase or lease of actual machinery is difficult just due to economies of scale.
Myth.
Yes public assistance is tied to income, I thought you were smart enough to know that.
There are 330 million US citizens so a group of 8 million plus family is still a tiny minority. The Republican Party needs to grow up and get off the hate the worker mentality.
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