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Re:The Class of 2017 – Raising America's Pay by mason55 on Monday May 08, 2017 @12:37PM (#14293174)
The automated cashiers are only going to get better and cheaper. I think if that's your argument against raising the minimum wage then you're only delaying the inevitable.

Now, if the argument was "don't raise the minimum wage because we want people to keep their jobs temporarily while we spin up xyz programs to help for when then inevitably lose them to automation" then, OK, that seems reasonable. There's a plan to move forward from the inevitable.

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Re:The Class of 2017 – Raising America's Pay by BearGoesChirp on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:06PM (#14294564)
My argument is that maybe we shouldn't judge the impact of raising minimum wages in late 2010s using data from raising the minimum wage in 1999 because there have been significant advances in automation. I am not making an argument on if we should or shouldn't raise the minimum wage, only commenting of the relevance of data someone used.
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