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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yeah, and what's so bad about businesses going under, anyway? If you can't sell your goods and services for a price that people are willing to pay and that will cover your costs, then you don't have a good business.
Poor people should not have to subsidize businesses with their labour. That's exploitation.
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I guess if you think someone working in a small town in the midwest is being exploited by making less than $15/hour, where rent is $400, and a dinner at the local diner is $4, then I would say paying someone less than $30/hour in Calgary is exploitative.
You don't want to shut down all the businesses in a local economy that is built around cheap land, cheap rent, cheap labor, and cheap goods and services and turn a perfectly happy small town into a ghost town, do you?
I don't think $15 min brute force min wage will clear congress for these reasons. I don't think that it is good for the democratic party if they implemented something that shuts down a lot of business and puts people out of work in many areas across the country.