Won’t the market pretty well extend the minimum wage? Not to disagree with the premise, but in Germany, for example, the union represents about 1/3 of workers, and whatever the union is able to negotiate basically becomes standard for all workers. Why? Because people will gravitate to those jobs with a protected floor.

If in 6 months wages in other sectors don’t follow, then the workers will drain toward fast food and the other industries will have to be competitive.

But yes, I don’t see why the law is discriminating here. Just raise the whole minimum wage.

A great movie.

To echo Beryl, light is a wave.

Can you know something if it’s false? Is that the question?

Cheese and rice!

They would have uploaded his brain into a supercomputer and then forced him to experience death six million times over.

Just kidding, he would have been executed like many many other war criminals throughout history.

I’m curious if they look alike

I think the post makes a point important in modern capitalism: people will create “value” for free because they can, they care, they want to, it’s a challenge. Capital and/or the threat of starvation is not actually always necessary for people to be “productive”. Ego, boredom, altruism, adventure, these are also traits of humanity besides survival and greed.

This reminds me when Justin Bieber said something dumb about Anne Frank being a “belieber” and the internet lost its mind. The museum was like “at least he came and saw the museum”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22146859