Re:The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass
by perl4ever on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:44PM
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Only a couple percent of hourly workers make minimum wage or below. That's why people keep saying raising it doesn't create inflation that cancels the raise out. Most of the inputs to a typical basket of goods are not minimum wage labor.
See: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm