• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    Give a million poor people $100.00 each and it goes straight into the general economy. People are buying shoes, food, pizza.

    Give one billionaire $100 million and they’ll buy a van Gogh and hide it from the rest of the world.

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    21 days ago

    Everyone benefits from a higher minimum wage. When people make enough to spend they actually spend it. That is what actually keeps an economy healthy and more people that make above minimum wage employed.

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      21 days ago

      Right. The way you know modern economics is for the most part a sham is its complete silence on allowing dragon’s to hoard mountains of wealth and the damage this does to an economy.

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    21 days ago

    Everyone. Everyone benefits from a higher minimum wage, because it places upward pressure on wages. Employers are forced to compete with McDonalds for labor, and everyone ends up getting a raise.

    I say “everyone” but of course that isn’t entirely true. But the people who don’t benefit are statistically insignificant. It’s like saying “I ate all the rice” because you at a bowl of rice, but one half of one piece of rice got stuck to the rim of the bowl. That’s how few people don’t benefit from higher minimum wages.