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| Topic | 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck |
| adjl 10/05/22 10:17:37 PM #40: | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Indeed. So what were you talking about? It certainly sounded like you were saying small business would pay their employees more if there were UBI. I think you're confused by the parenthetical remark. If we take it out: adjl posted... minimum wage laws should be abolished in favour of UBI, which enables small businesses that can't generate enough revenue to pay a living wage [snip] to succeed. In your defense, it's an awkwardly worded phrase because it's got two layers of verbs, and I put the parenthetical remark right between them such that one could easily be forgiven for thinking the sentence ended with "to pay a living wage." In this case, "small businesses that can't generate enough revenue to pay a living wage" collectively comprises the object of the sentence, so if we replace that with a pronoun to simplify matters, it becomes "[Obviating minimum wage laws] enables them to succeed." Jen0125 posted... It's really annoying watching you purposely misrepresent what people are saying. It is, but I get it in this particular case. Some of the blame rests on me for communicating awkwardly this time. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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