My friend (who's in his mid-20s) owns and operates a restaurant in Okotoks. He works everyday and is able to employ one hostess, one waitress, and one cook. He's terrified of what this hike will do to his business, because unlike what a lot of people think the margins for small town small business are razor thin. The restaurant is barely getting by as it is.
The cumulative effect of people like my friend going out of business is what the anti crowd here is against. Small business isn't lucrative but it is a big chunk of our economy, one that's already taken a pretty big hit. Is it fair that his 17 year old hostess, doing a job literally anyone can do, receives an artificially inflated wage and forces him to the close the doors of a restaurant he invested his life and savings in? One party has a lot more at stake here than the other.
No one ####ing cares about Walmart going out of business, it's a stupid example because it never will. If you wanna say my friend deserves to go under because of terrible business practices that's fine, but it would mean ceding the high ground moral position you all seem to love.
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