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If you assume that (a) most manufacturing has moved to cheap-labor countries and (b) rent is a more important input than labor for restaurants / starbucks, then
by awinter-py 10y ago
If you assume that (a) most manufacturing has moved to cheap-labor countries and (b) rent is a more important input than labor for restaurants / starbucks, then it's not surprising that raising the wage floor doesn't hurt employment.
The wage floor imposed by cost of living is already in effect in most major cities.
A bolder move would be to impose a tariff on goods and services that use sub minimum wage labor.