Even advocates for the unbanked don’t think this is the right solution. The solution to people without access to banking isn’t cash, it’s access to banks!

If municipalities want to regulate transactions they should require all banks in their zipcode to offer free checking/debit. 

So you tried to be super annoying and you were successful? Cool.

For the love of god, let’s just get Postal Banking in the US, so every person is entitled to a free basic checking account and debit card. Then we can finally be done with cash forever. It would almost instantly solve all of the very real problems with being “unbanked”. It would give low-income people the security of…

The “$15 is not enough” figure depends on state, the studies you refer to almost exclusively refer to to an average of all states. For example, <a href="http://livingwage.mit.edu/">MIT’s living wage calculator<a> says a living wage for a single adult in Wisconsin is $11.41. Looking at other midwestern states, the…

Hey, if you can’t open your brain long enough to see that a lot of people can make it just fine on the old minimum wage of $10, then that’s your problem and frankly I don’t give two sh!ts if you can afford your next month’s rent or not, because of your stupidity.

The post that everyone is responding to is a single anecdote.  I guess I’m missing where the data was in this post (or your response).

I mean, the article used anecdotes too, just sayin.

I know plenty of folks who didn’t push themselves to get a real job, making the current minimum wage of $10 per hour who can afford to rent a $600/month bedroom from someone. They’re getting by just fine.

It’s always one of those “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” things with me. Fighting for any wage number is not a great way to use resources without requiring that the wage is tied to cost of living or inflation, etc. Like, even if $15 sounds good to people now (and in lower cost areas it is good), by the time it…

That’s why the anticipated cost should be built into the price already, you can’t prepare for every expense but you can for this one. 

If your margins are so razor thin that you need to pass a 3% fee onto a subsection of your consumers, you probably should be focusing on improving other aspects of the business. Anyone who starts a business knows that these fees exist, so it should be built into the business plan and the price of the food and drinks ju…

So what happens when they reach their ‘full potential’?  Is it like some sort of Quickening, where they obtain the prize? Do they finally cum?  Can there only be one?

5 year old book.

I pictured him to be more of a bulked up character, but Gorman has the acting chops to do the character justice. 

It’s a homeopathic certification. By having less real certifications they are more certified.

Way to kill the joke...

What astonishes me is how many who have no problems laughing at the idiocy of homeopathy and reiki, yet believe in chiropractic and religious faith.
This is 2018; we shouldn’t have to waste resources on debunking codswallop and balderdash.

Oh man. Someone in my family was a big believer in that crap.

Homeopath = naturopath = snake oil bullshit artist.