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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by winstonewert on Saturday October 15, 2016 @12:25PM (#12714518)
The post didn't argue that raising wages of workers was bad, it argued that raising the wages of workers produces unemployment which you didn't address at all.
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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by dsfyu404ed on Saturday October 15, 2016 @06:25PM (#12715907)
The point he failed to make was that finding employees in a rural area is a "near zero" sum game.

When a large employer raises its wage a big chunk of people who work a few hours at a second job stop working that second job.

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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by haalcion3 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:41PM (#12716138)
> When a large employer raises its wage a big chunk of people who work a few hours at a second job stop working that second job.

With the U.S. underemployment rate at 12.9%, having additional jobs available for people to take shouldn't be a bad thing:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/205240/us-underemploymen...

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