4-25% is the range at which prices would increase based on the corresponding wage increase from $15-22/hour—at $15, prices would go up 4.3%, and at $22, they go up 25%, as I noted above.

As was amply demonstrated by the Industrial Revolution! Gahhhh, HISTORY CAN ACTUALLY TEACH PEOPLE THINGS.

YES YES YES YES

I think some very small, niche companies would struggle if it was an overnight change. I’m thinking some comic stores and gaming stores in particular. But, with it being a gradual increase, that will help a lot.

Also, I think those who are worried about losing their favourite local store due to these rises should get…

Do people think robots are, like, easy? That you can just fashion one up, MacGyver style? Because, let me tell you, I’ve watched NASA scientists struggle with putting together a soda can robot whose only job was to jitter around. We won’t have one that can make burgers any time soon.

Watch the one that starts with him riding her tail and forcing her to move over. It’s even worse than you think - he orchestrated the stop in the first place.

It also should cause an upward increase on wages across the board. Which is actually a good thing for everybody, but somehow the rich businessmen (Chamber of Commerce, protecting the interests of bored businessmen to hoard their money) see it as money not going to them, never mind that it’d be enabling wage-earners to…

Businesses that are well run don’t have much to worry about, and frankly who cares about marginal businesses?

I’m in Calgary and this is going to be great, I know a number of people who are going to be helped out big time with this change.

He “lost control” the way an abuser “loses control,” as in, he didn’t lose control at all. I watched a longer version of the traffic stop video that starts right when he comes back to the car after writing the warning, and I now have a completely different view of what went down: it was entirely Encinia’s doing. He…

My former neighbor was being assaulted by her ex and a local (small town) police officer arrived on scene pretty quickly. He heard her screams for help and a physical altercation, ran into the house and stopped her ex from completing sexual assault (and possible murder? I’m not certain on the charge but she had clear…

Oh thank god. I thought it was gonna be another one of those “Do these high school dropouts think they deserve more than an EMT?!?” comments. Do they seriously think fast food workers actually think that? No. The movement is about a living wage for everyone. I have a masters degree and am employed in my field at…

I’ve run into this at work, (shelving and circulation at a library) with a co-worker spouting the “Why should a burger flipper make as much as I do? BS. I chose not to engage because he and I get along like gasoline fumes and fire, but I really wanted to say “Number one, your wages should rise as well because it’s not…

In the story about the scandalous folks on TLC over at Gawker, I posted about the psychological concept of Social Comparison Theory. It’s worth repeating here.

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People have been worrying pretty hard about the $15/hr wage that Alberta will be implementing in a couple of years. Right now, it’s $10.20 ($9.20 for those who serve liquor). It’s going up $1 in October (liquor servers will be brought into the regular fold to make a flat wage), and then increasing until it’s $15 by…

It’s weird when people think like that, but their mind doesn’t go “ I should be making MORE money” and instead goes “They should be making LESS”. More money for everybody!!!

But...but raising minimum wage to $15/hour would result in runaway inflation! Milk would cost $10/gallon at least!

It’s so insane—it’s like every rule and standard comes with a wink that they’re just kidding. I come from a couple fields that take background checks and ethics very seriously, but have low value in society, and we would be fired in an instant for anything approaching imperfect behavior. But if the consequences are…

But if we pay fast food service workers a fair living wage, that’s like admitting that they’re people with thoughts and feelings and needs rather than grease robots that make quick-meat for my food hole. Next you'll be telling me that I have to tip waitstaff and stop yelling at the hostess when I show up without a…

Maybe these corporations could use all the money they spending lobbying* politicians and use it to pay their employees like human beings. Or we could keep sliding into a cyberpunk megacorp dystopia. No matter how cool living in a William Gibson novel sounds, we should probably choose human decency.