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Why is this regulating just fastfood workers?!

• gnicholas 3y ago
  It's specifically regulating fast food workers employed by large companies, presumably because it would have been harder to pass a law that also affected mom-and-pop restaurants. Of course, now those mom-and-pop businesses have to compete for labor with $20 fast food wages as the backdrop, so they are affected either way. But I suppose they also benefit from these mass layoffs, which increase the supply of available labor.
  • nikolay 3y ago
    My point is that it discriminates one type of business against another. Labor is labor - if one type of labor should be paid at least $20/hour, so should all others.
    • gnicholas 3y ago
      I'm sure the proponents of the bill would have preferred an across-the-board bump, but this is all they could get passed. I wouldn't be surprised if this were rolled back via referendum after its effects are felt.
      • nikolay 3y ago
        Everywhere else in the world there's a minimum wage. And it works well. There are other basics with decades of data behind. I don't get why America wants to reinvent the square wheel so badly!