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It is both false (raising the minimum wage has a negligible overall effect on retail prices) and deflects attention from the real problem: Resource hoarding by the super-rich. We could end poverty today through taxation & redistribution policies. That's what terrifies them. 2/2
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People out there saying raising the minimum wage to $15 will make groceries more expensive are arguing poverty is an essential component of the economy. That in order for (some of) us to eat (some of) us must starve. This is false scarcity at work. Reject that framing. 1/2
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steveklabnik retweeted
Raising minimum wage debate in America
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I see Twitter is doing this today
(you, dumb): we should pay workers more (me, has taken econ 101): you see where this line meets that line? that's why the poor should starve
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I almost solo’d it again this morning but didn’t quite finish. I’ll come back for you, Zulmak
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knocked him out. switching up my loadout helped. easier with witherhoard/ikelos smg/falling guillotine
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/me takes a giant bong rip If you think about it, the “Capitol police” are really the “Capital police”
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all retail workers are better at intervention and de-escalation than cops
Trader Joe's manager in Oregon does a great job rejecting anti-maskers
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✨just a friendly reminder that the idea of "unskilled labor" is a myth perpetuated by the wealthy in order to justify poverty wages and when you parrot it to your fellow workers you are actively undercutting your own worth✨
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