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by Danihan 3089 days ago
Raising the minimum wage will simply result in jobs being replaced by kiosks.

Not that it won't happen soon anyway, but why hasten it.
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zzzeek 3089 days ago
Here, argue with the Economic Policy Institute regarding this very basic and widely recognized economic fact: http://www.epi.org/publication/minimum-wage-workers-poverty-...
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neuronexmachina 3089 days ago
The EPI piece actually doesn't address the other commenter's point in any way.
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c0nducktr 3089 days ago
Why keep putting it off? Isn't this the whole point of technology? So that humans will no longer have to do these jobs? Lets just have it happen and deal with the consequences. Why keep kicking the can down the road?
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111_1_111 3089 days ago
Because it will be much easier to deal with an increase in joblessness/transition to different types of work if it doesn't happen all at once.
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