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A comment on California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers. Parent comment

Re:California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at s... by mindslight on Saturday April 26, 2025 @04:19PM (#43806807)
> wage increases have reduced fast food employment, shortened the hours worked, compelled fast food franchises to use more automation

This sounds like all around progress to me. As always, the trick is getting the political will to take care of those displaced by progress rather than stiffing them with hard knocks until their resentment builds into support for more destructive policies like the current Great Leap Backwards.

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Re:California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at s... by twoodfin on Saturday April 26, 2025 @04:55PM (#43807138)
Historically, it’s more efficient and less of a constraint on growth to take care of those people directly via transfer payments (tax & spend) than by turning over otherwise ordinary business decisions to bureaucracy like the “California Fast Food Council”.
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