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Conservative ideology is more about inspiration, rhetoric, and beliefs than information, studies, and data. This OP does not take a quantative approach to the minimum wage. It simply says, I believe people should do X so we can forget about minimum wage (in between equating minimum wage workers to monkeys... with no racial undertones there! ).
Like I said, strawman argument. It doesn't say anything to address the discussion about raising the minimum wage.
Tossing the race card. What a typical liberal response.
I fully support to raise the minimum wage to $150/hour. Why the slow death? Let's do it quickly and we can all get over this silliness once and for all.
I suppose that if he is sending loads of buying customers into the store every hour he works then he certainly is worth more than $20 per hour.
Then he should be on commission, not a set salary. If in fact, he were the reason customers were coming into the store and spending money, and he can do that better than anyone else, then he should negotiate a cut of that.
However, something tells me that's not the case.
Well, the RWNJs would like people to believe, "That's just life". In their twisted and greed filled existence that may be true but it sure isn't true for the workers of our country. If you want to compete with third world countries when it comes to wages you will become a third world country. The USA is headed that way as multinational corporations rule the roost in Yankeeland.
It doesn't matter how deep the sand is where you are burying your head; the reality is that we live in a global economy. A large amount of manufacturing will always be in the third world.
You can be on the desert island refusing to eat coconuts and fish until you are blue in the face waiting for a steak to be delivered, but it will only end one way.
And yet minimum wage is not a "punishment" against minorities either. If fact, if there were no minimum wage, the free market might not allow such a low wage. But since the government says it's okay to pay minimum wage businesses that "might" pay more, don't really have to, because they can say they are paying a "fair" rate.
When the OP calls minimum wage workers less intelligent than monkeys, what am I supposed to think? Let's nail the logic down:
Fact: blacks and brown latinoes are disproportionately working in low wage labor
Fact: blacks have been compared to monkeys historically since the dawn of America
Fact: Monkeys are actually intelligent, but they aren't human. Dehumanization is a focal point of racial oppression
Like I said, typical liberal. Looking for something, somewhere, anything, where you can scream "RACIST!" "I'M OFFENDED!".
You're the one who brought up blacks, not me. Now who's the racist?
I used monkeys because theoretically, a monkey can be taught to perform certain task, but they don't demand pay or benefits, just a banana.
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