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Old 01-15-2022, 01:30 AM   #3672
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Only if they there is a perception and it would lead to job loss. Is that fear real? We've discussed the minimum wage argument here, does raising it reduce jobs? Also, we know minorities do the jobs white people won't. So economically, does raising wages and working conditions suddenly make it appealing for white workers again? If you have a white person against a minority for a job, does the white person always win? How diverse is Amazon really? Or do temporary working visas become harder to obtain because there would no longer be a shortage of crappy jobs? I think you and I would agree that this fear is exaggerated.

So you've got a lot of factors here on the Democratic side. You've got the greedy side who just want to keep the status quo because money is rolling in and screw the workers, they're lucky to even have jobs. And you've got those who want better conditions but what if it leads to a changing landscape detrimental to minorities?
The problem with left wing policies is unlike the right the left likes big gesture policy, one time minimum wage hikes of 35% or 40% in an attempt to make everything right at once, which of course does cause economic shock and ends up backfiring, the right wing has been trying to get rid of womans reproductive rights for years and will succeed by taking small seemingly pointless bites over 20 years until now we are at a point where getting an abortion will be all but impossible in most of the US while at no point has any GOP President run on a platform of getting rid of abortions.

It shows how stupid the US left are that the morons in the GOP are massively tactically smarter
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