[quote=SD Realtor]”Low wages are the same as the pollution coming from the car. The argument isn’t that the laborer is doing something that deserve more, the argument is that if the product or service cannot be produced unless it uses sub-living wages, then as society, we’re better off without it”
Yes we may be better off without it. Except we would eliminate perhaps millions of jobs.
It can be argued that every single morsel of fast food is pollution. So by the logic above, (and I agree) that as a society we are much better off without any fast food. So zap every fast food job in America.[/quote]
Would we eliminate millions of jobs? They said that about LA’s hotel living wage thing too. Net effect pretty much zero.
If it forces innovation, how many jobs will be gained because engineers and tech companies expand into new automation efforts?
How many jobs are gain by low wage workers having more money? It’s like the farm labor debate, 88 cents/lb grapes and farm workers paid minimum wage or just illegal. Labor is a big part of farm costs, but not that big. Double the wages and grapes will be what? $1.20? The Horror!
