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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
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
✨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✨