Does anybody ever mention the harm that raising the minimum wage does to those with min wage jobs? It takes away the incentive for these people to better themselves. It keeps tem stuck in mind-numbing boring jobs. Pay somebody $15 to sweep floors and it becomes a whole lot less urgent to take some classes or work a little harder to move on up.
Minimum wages and raiding minimum wages hurts the poor. Keeps them down.
“Does anybody ever mention the harm that raising the minimum wage does to those with min wage jobs? It takes away the incentive for these people to better themselves. It keeps tem stuck in mind-numbing boring jobs. Pay somebody $15 to sweep floors and it becomes a whole lot less urgent to take some classes or work a little harder to move on up.
Minimum wages and raiding minimum wages hurts the poor. Keeps them down.”
This is what liberals do. There is always a static model, and they are so damn smart they can figure out how to wiggle exactly and only one variable in it and nobody else can.
To your comment: Not to mention....that some small but non-zero number of those who cannot find jobs will turn to criminality out of a combination of desperation and weak morals (how racist of me for thinking that but not of “you” for thinking that I was thinking about any particular race) and commit property and person crimes which can easily impose 5 and 6-figure costs upon society. So when a newly unemployed person commits a simple act of shoplifting and is simply diverted to some sort of probation program....it probably imposes $10K or $15K worth of costs on the system. That’s 2000 hours or one person-year of the $5 per hour raise that somebody else got due to the minimum wage bump.
Or suppose the same shoplifter person finds themselves in the county slammer for 3 months. Probably about the same overall system cost.
But now suppose they beat and rob their neighbor and the neighbor ends up in the ICU at an unreimbursed cost of $100,000. That’s ten person-years of system costs imposed.
It takes no kind of economics PHd to see these secondary and tertiary effects but when you can make a goofball assertion about how wonderful life will be under your hackneyed and proven-wrong utopian vision, the negative consequences for which you will never be held to account, it’s a piece of socialist cake.