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Do you believe that the researchers who study these sorts of things are, without exception, complete idiots who never thought of the possibility that there migh
by jellicle 8y ago
Do you believe that the researchers who study these sorts of things are, without exception, complete idiots who never thought of the possibility that there might be other factors changing at the same time as the minimum wage change?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
You might want to ask yourself "why was it important for me to try to find some reason why this information was wrong?"
- dnautics 8y agobecause I've been poor when they increased the minimum wage and it didn't do fuck all for me, I was a contractor, and all it did was increase the cost of living around me.
- longerthoughts 8y agoI don't have an informed opinion on whether or not there's a causal relationship between wage hikes and economic growth, but "This didn't help me" != "This didn't help my city/state".
- dnautics 8y agono the point is that the idea of the goodness of a minimum wage is very much tied to a very middle class idea of what constitutes labor, and the reality is that large classes of people are not necessarily in a situation where it is a useful societal tool. As typical, one of the hidden costs - increased cost of living - hurts the least privileged the hardest.
- longerthoughts 8y agoThe parent’s claim was “the states which raise their minimum wages do better economically”, which is not the same as “every person benefits from an increased minimum wage”. You’re arguing a counter-point to a point that nobody has made.