@Bible_Belt , don't bother trying to explain this to
@taiyuu_otoko .
On this topic, he repeats the same old right wing talking points about the minimum wage. Pure theories about how most businesses will go under or switch entirely to robots overnight, not acknowledging profits have never been higher.
He speaks as though every business is a mom and pop shop barely surviving, and we're about to double their employees' wages and send them into the red. Of course, this is the exception and not the rule. The rule is Verizon and McDonalds. But they can't afford to pay their employees $12 instead of $8 with a trillion dollar profit per year, and how will that CEO survive making $20 mil per instead of $23?
He also doesn't understand that which you clearly laid out, that we are subsidizing poor people ANYWAY because almost everyone making $8 an hour is going to be on welfare. A $10-12 minimum wage would get about half of them off the dole, savings taxpayers billions.
Lastly, from a pure humanitarian perspective, he offers no alternatives to this starvation scenario. We have inflation every year, but no wage increases since 2006, thereby we actually decrease the minimum wage every year for the last decade. His solution is "get more skills" and just don't work for minimum wage, as though we don't need low skilled workers in this economy. He'd be perfectly OK with a $1 minimum wage because the free market shouldn't restrict any willing 2-party "contract". Never mind its a contract signed under duress by a civilian living under corporate fascism.
80% of Americans want it raised, 20℅ don't. He wants it abolished entirely. He's a minority within a minority.