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Topic	Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
uwnim 10/02/18 9:02:11 AM #39:	FLUFFYGERM posted... uwnim posted... FLUFFYGERM posted... but i thought we need high corporate taxes and severe regulations in order to benefit workers gee it's almost as if minimum wage laws can be entirely replaces by the free market! Amazon is asking for minimum wage to be raised though. <_< Though really that would just be because then they can cause their competitors to pay higher wages as well so there's less impact from this decision and get good press. youre not saying minomum wage is going to have unintended consequences, are you?!?! No, like most things, what it does depends on how you do it. Something like making the federal minimum wage $15 would cause a lot of issues, while something like raising it to $8 wouldn't. Amazon would be asking for a higher minimum, because it is unlikely that there'd be something that would come close to what they've decided to pay, so attempting to get it raised would just make them look good. And if they are able to get it to something like say 9.50-10 it would possibly raise wages in some of their competitors. --- I want a pet Lavos Spawn. [Order of the Cetaceans: Phocoena dioptrica] <cite>uwnim posted [p:909816683] in Amazon rai... [t:77059795]...</cite> <quote><cite>FLUFFYGERM posted...</cite> <quote><cite>uwnim posted...</cite> <quote><cite>FLUFFYGERM posted...</cite> <quote>but i thought we need high corporate taxes and severe regulations in order to benefit workers gee it's almost as if minimum wage laws can be entirely replaces by the free market!</quote> Amazon is asking for minimum wage to be raised though. <_< Though really that would just be because then they can cause their competitors to pay higher wages as well so there's less impact from this decision and get good press.</quote> youre not saying minomum wage is going to have unintended consequences, are you?!?!</quote> No, like most things, what it does depends on how you do it. Something like making the federal minimum wage $15 would cause a lot of issues, while something like raising it to $8 wouldn't. Amazon would be asking for a higher minimum, because it is unlikely that there'd be something that would come close to what they've decided to pay, so attempting to get it raised would just make them look good. And if they are able to get it to something like say 9.50-10 it would possibly raise wages in some of their competitors. --- I want a pet Lavos Spawn. [Order of the Cetaceans: Phocoena dioptrica]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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