All the stars for this guy! This drives me NUTS. I keep thinking the car is about to back out of its spot ... come on GM, those lights mean a VERY specific thing. Namely, “I’m in reverse and about to back up” ...

Judging by the amount of time most people seem to spend looking out the windshield vs. down at their phones whilst driving, I doubt anyone will notice they got one.

I mean, do people not know where babies come from?

Seven decades ago the refrigerator was just invented and no one had a TV in their house. It is fully possible for this data to be largely irrelevant in today’s post industrial society.

I have to pay a McDonalds worker $15/ hour, those costs need to be borne somewhere.

If neither of those can be done then you don’t have a viable business model for the modern era.

And yet, the big box down the street (or whatever the equivalent is for your field) gets to pay almost nothing for labor and doesn’t pay taxes.

Even so... the need to burn calories to stay alive while not working, the need to see a doctor, the need to own or lease a dwelling, and to occasionally, you know, leave work for a while also drive businesses to try to eliminate labor.

Did it ever occur to you that even your pay is actually lower than it should be? And that by increasing the minimum wage, it will help to lift all wages across the board, including yours.

The real way to solve this problem is by raising income taxes to truly progressive levels. A CEO making 100x what their average worker makes, needs to be taxed at a rate of around 65%, not 35% (or what the truly wealthy pay, around 15%). In this way services can be provided to the poor who aren’t making enough,…

This doesn’t come up enough. I absolutely hate the “FIGHT FOR 15!” because it ignores the majority of the country. But paying your workers a living wage benefits you financially.

As a business owner, if I have to pay a McDonalds worker $15/ hour, those costs need to be borne somewhere. Its either through automation (ordering kiosks to eliminate headcount) or increased product price.

You’re one of the people I’m talking about!

You really didn’t think this through, did you? What sort of impact do you think raising the minimum wage has on the price of an extremely high-volume seller like McDonald’s? McDonald’s has a lot of employees, sure, and raising the minimum wage will have an absolutely noticeable impact on their labor costs. But they…

It’d be easy enough to take you down based on your astounding condescension toward the people you clearly see as an uneducatable obese underclass, but I’ll grab the fruit hanging just above the lowest.

Valid points, but at the end of the day in order for businesses like Mcdonalds and its like to exist it needs workers. Regardless of the work you do, if you are working 40+ hours a week you deserve a sincere livable wage. When automation starts to occur at a faster pace we will have to be thinking forward towards a…

And no one ever talks about the trickle up benefits. If minimum wage goes up, then those minimum wage earners have more purchasing power. The cost of a burger goes up 50 cents, but they’re earning a couple more bucks per hour, so it works out in their favor. And they have more money to spend on other things as well,…

The police will do whatever their Republican masters ask of them, just as long as police unions are left out of “Right to Work” and other union busting laws under the guise of “Not wanting to jeopardize public safety”

Something has to be done about the problem of A) having a full-time job but B) not being able to afford a place to live and food to eat. Minimum wage being a living wage is one way to do this. If you’re right (you may very well be) that this would just put those people out of worth through automation, then perhaps…

Bruh, that sounds like real life. Go harvest resources (job) and come back to your base (your apartment) and give all the shit you earned to a NPC (wife and kids) and then repeat until you DIE.