Would you support a $15 an hour minimum wage?

[opebo]

A $15 minimum wage would be well beyond the minimum wage's peak in the late 1960s. And what has happened to labor productivity at those jobs? Is a cashier at McDonald's nearly 50% more productive today than he was when he made the equivalent of about $10 fifty years ago? No.

That doesn't matter at all!  The key question is has overall productivity increased by 50% - and of course it has.  Thus a $15/hour minimum would not be inflationary, but merely redistributive.  And redistribution is what makes the economy work well.

[opebo]

i think that's still not high enough but yes

Well yeah, this too. Ideally I'd like to see it at $25 an hour

Why not 50, or a hundred?

There certainly seems to be no limit to the demands for 'more, more' from the capitalist class, so perhaps your point is a good one - we should learn from our enemies and demand as they do.

I say demand the end to private property and the guillotining of the owning class.  Then a $25 minimum wage and a 95% top tax rate might seem a reasonable compromise.

[opebo]

Yes (normal)

I love the minimum wage hate on this site, yet whenever they put it up for a vote it always passes in landslide votes.

Forum full of horrible spoiled rich kids.

[opebo]

I love the minimum wage hate on this site, yet whenever they put it up for a vote it always passes in landslide votes.

Forum full of horrible spoiled rich kids.

Hang on, there are also class traitors and scabs who hate on the minimum wage. Don't heap all the blame in the corner of us horrible, spoiled little rich kids.

You're quite right.  My only defense - he hadn't posted yet:

no.  minimum wage laws should be left to the states.

a very high minimum wage would lead to high unemployment and inflation.

[opebo]

class traitors and scabs

no.  minimum wage laws should be left to the states.

a very high minimum wage would lead to high unemployment and inflation.

I'm presuming they get sent to Mme Guillotine as well. Or perhaps a burning at the stake (my own favoured method of execution). After all, the latter would provide work for both loggers and carpenters, and could be used to teach kids valuable life skills (the aforementioned logging, lighting a nice, roaring fire etc...)

Oh it wouldn't do any harm to eliminate them as well, that's certain.  However I think it would confuse the simple folk to have these traitors sliced by the same elegant, historically correct machines used on the class enemy.  Something more ignominious would be in order - perhaps simply dumping them in a big hole and covering it up.

[opebo]

You misunderstand the left-wing interpretation of what business is for. To some, it exists solely to provide jobs for people, not to make a profit. Therefore, no minimum wage increase, no increase in regulations and no reduction in working hours will ever be too much, as the business exists solely to provide social security to its employees (unless their evul managers and scabs, in which case they can go to hell).

No, business exists to enslave the workers, Cassius.