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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by bostik on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:56PM (#18124587)
> * But isn't using welfare to fill in the gaps the most efficient solution?*

If you need welfare to cover the cost of living for full-time workers, then that is very much corporate welfare.

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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by bhupy on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:05PM (#18124679)
By that logic, any welfare is corporate welfare. Single payer healthcare paid for by taxpayers allows corporations to not provide their employees health insurance benefits.

For sure, that's one way to look at it, but the rest of my comment lays out why welfare is the least bad way to maintain standard of living.

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