Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:35AM
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"Value" in economics is somewhat arbitrary. When both you and all your competitors have to pay at least $15/hour for a necessary piece work, you'll all pass the cost onto the consumer and suddenly the work will be creating $15/hour in value.
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Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
by barry-cotter on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:44AM
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No, because all of the people who were marginal customers will just forgo your product or service. You can pass on all of an increase in costs for goods with price inelastic demand. If demand is elastic you either have to eat the margin or go out of business.
Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
by tanilama on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:48AM
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It doesn't work that way either. Consumers are not suddenly going to have more to spend due to hike of minimum wage.
If the inflation keeps low, total amount of money in the economy is relative constant, thus the cake is not getting much bigger, increasing minimum wage is going to reduce the number of jobs in the sector that is paying previous the minimum wage.
Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
by pzh on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:49AM
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But then you’re just increasing inflation, and the people you pay $15/hour end up having the same purchasing power as before.
Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
by gldalmaso on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:52AM
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This seems to assume that every good purchased is created by a minimum wage work force. That not being the case, the minimum wage work force purchasing power increases for everything else that is imported or produced by a higher wage work force.