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Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan
Great. We have created an economy where hundreds of thousands of University educated young people every year have NO job options OTHER than retail or other minimum wage SERVICE INDUSTRY jobs.
So if this is the economy that we want, we have to pay them a living wage. The other option is to have hundreds of thousands of University students emigrate to "third world" countries every single year to make 8 cents per hour making the cheap plastic crap that you buy at Sprawl-Mart.
This is the economy that you Neo-Cons wanted so... pay for it or endure a country with 300,000 rich oil workers and no on in the service industry.
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You know, that's actually true. We've raised a generation of useless university grads. If they don't get the job they "deserve" they just set up camp in your local park a complain about it. A third option might have been for some of these poor dears to realize that jobs are not the one and only option for "smart" people with university degrees. Eventually one of them is going to have to create their own job, possibly hire some fellow useless people with degrees. Option one will always be there...just wait for minimum wage to go up and vote for the useless party that best represents their useless existence.
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Originally Posted by rubecube
I go to Seattle at least once a year. This stuff was happening long before the wage increase was announced.
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The question is will $15 minimum wage help? It's supposed to.