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Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants by enobrev on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:36AM (#21387607)
I absolutely agree with your second paragraph.

For the rest, I'd recommend you spend a half year working in the service industry for half minimum wage plus tips before throwing around phrases like "zero-skill".

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Re:$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants by linuxftw on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:37PM (#21401646)
I waited tables for minimum wage plus tips prior to moving on to other things. I considered it a zero skill job. Literally no experience necessary, they'll hire anyone.

There are plenty of zero-skill jobs (or maybe we should say zero-value-skill), and they're going to pay zero-skill job wages. You're free to pretend that's not the case, reality proves otherwise.

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