They were going to suggest a fire sale to help come up with funds, but found out that you can’t actually sell a river.

Great, now I need a new excuse not to watch the Oppressive Dictatorship GP.

It’s better to get actual data rather that just reasoning to a conclusion about the effects of a law. There have been studies on changes to minimum wages that do not indicate any reduction in employment. I’m not sure the issue has been settled by any means, but it’s not as clear as “higher minimum wage = higher…

We’re talking about unskilled labor. Some people don’t have access to the kind of education you did, or the type of training, and some are just discriminated against for a number of unrelated issues.

It’s almost like a lot of the commenters have a gross misunderstanding of who works a minimum wage job.

Your family obviously isn’t doing something right. If you can’t afford your overhead, that means your business isn’t producing correctly. So yeah if you can’t bring in enough money, to pay your employees and keep your doors open, you should probably consider doing something else. If you can’t afford to pay your…

A $15 minimum wage would NOT accelerate companies automating their workforce. They are already working on automating their workforce, and minimum wage isn’t $15 an hour. Companies would do this if minimum wage was $3 an hour.

Maybe they didn’t stay at a minimum wage job but were forced into it. Say their nice job had to lay off employees or the company went belly up. say they were retired but their benefit package was cut and had to go back to work. There aren’t always replacement jobs in your field available. It is ironic you call them…

If you cannot afford to pay 1 worker a livable wage then fuck yes you have a shitty business model. I have built and sold 3 business and all were highly profitable and employed over a dozen employees, so yes I know a little about small business. Bottom line if you cannot pay your employees a livable wage then you have…

If your “business” is so shitty that you cannot afford to pay 1 employee then that is on you. Its not like if tomorrow minimum wage disappeared you would suddenly be doing the world a service by employing 1 person at $2.15 an hour. Maybe you should close your doors if you cannot pay 1 person an unlivable wage, or just…

Is that when good jobs were plentiful?

If your business model is so shitty that you can’t afford to pay the current minimum wages, the problem is you and your shitty business, not the minimum wage.

Also magically not be born in poverty, and/or a minority.

Aaaaand doubling down on that boot strap pulling.

Nobody wants to work for you for free.

Roughly 24% of hourly workers at (or below) the Federal min wage are teenagers. That means the majority (about 76%) are not teenagers.

Dude you are wrong from the very first sentence to the very last.

HIT THE APEX OR DIE TRYING

By extension, the team kneeling down to run out the clock and end the game would be on defense, even though they have the ball, can move the ball, and maintain possession of the ball...which is the basic definition of “being on offense.”