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People like this love food stamps. They are quite happy to have the taxpayer feed their workers for them. Many years ago I applied to work at Kmart. The wages
by willcipriano 5y ago
People like this love food stamps. They are quite happy to have the taxpayer feed their workers for them.
Many years ago I applied to work at Kmart. The wages were lower than I could get elsewhere so I pass and the manager offers to go over "the benefits", he tells me that I can get healthcare (Medicaid) and money towards groceries (Food stamps) as well as rent assistance (another government program). They had systems in place to help you apply to these programs.
- wave_function 5y agoAccording to this guy’s (possible wrong) view of market elasticity. More food stamps-> each person work more hours to survive-> more labor supply-> lower wages. (EDIT) Which would make him not like food stamps. There are other effects of food stamps, but in this guys view, that’s the dominant term. Maybe he’d like it for his own employees, but certainly not for the market as a whole. I guess it’s the opposite of “restaurants have to pay people more to compete with coronabucks” narrative that started a year or two back.