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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by joh6nn on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:09PM (#18132367)
Obviously that wage isn't sustainable. The good news is that the majority of people discussing wage increases are making good-faith arguments about sustainable increases, and are not asking for a (ridiculous) $12M/yr minimum wage.

I'm not sure I understand what point you're trying to make by presenting a hypothetical wage that's 5 orders of magnitude larger than the situation being discussed.

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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by ttoinou on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:21AM (#18138576)
That you cannot create money out of thin air, that you are only trying to force increasing the relative value of labor vs. capital / land / moral hazard etc.

If your increase in minimum wage follows productivity then what's the point ? It's like voting for no child labour laws after most of the children are not working anymore

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