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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by badpun on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:06PM (#18132949)
> Increasing the minimum wage from 5 to 50 dollars is unlikely to cause a 10x inflation, it more likely would cause a 3x or 5x inflation.

I' guessing it would rather create massive unemployment, and subsequently be cancelled. Think about it - middle-class people are ok with paying $4 for their Starbucks coffee, but if they were to pay say $10 (because the baristas salaries just tripled), probably a lot of them would cut back on them. Maybe even Starbucks would disappear altogether. Multiply that effect across all industries hiring minimum-wage workers. It would be a train wreck.

Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by hexane360 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @06:59PM (#18157809)
Most of Starbuck's cost doesn't come from paying baristas. It comes from coffee, real estate, utilities, and corporate.

Here's some real world evidence:

https://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/18/early-analysis-of...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615576/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Empirical_studies