| the-pi-guy said: Let's talk about something else. So one thing I don't get is when some people say that a minimum wage increase would lead to people getting fewer hours, as if that by itself were a terrible thing. People bring this up as if by itself with no other factors in play, this is a bad thing. If I can make the same amount of money in half the time, why's that dreadful? If I'm currently doing 40 hours a week at minimum wage, doing 20 hours at $15 would be a better situation. Even if that's all I did, and I wasn't really making more money, I'd still be in a better place because i have more free time. And potentially with that free time, if I needed more money, I could get another job that probably would also give me 20 hours a week. And then I'm back to working 40 hours a week, but I'm making double what I was before. I saw a Freedom Toons video about how they were right that Bernie had to cut hours to hit the $15/hour. Despite the fact that these people were making exactly the same amount of money. It ends up being the dumbest "gotcha libs" ever. |
I feel that the minimum wage should be increased but just not to $15. Maybe like $11 or $12. Fewer hours is a plus for some people but another effect of an increase would be loss of jobs.
