An employee at a major bank in Florida was so grateful we passed 15 an hour min. She makes roughly 19 an hour and her son works in retail. She said how pleased she was that they would earn more money. I stated "how we going to make more money"? She went on to explain her 20 years of service is worth a lot more than min wage. I responded the 15 an hour is like food stamps, designed to help the poorest among us. She than asked the manager when they raise the min wage 1.5 will she get more money. To which she was told no, just the annual raise if available. It was at that moment she understood. Telling me if she could work at the zoo for 15 an hour why would she work in a high stress office. To which I responded "you wouldn't". In hind sight I should have said those making 100k would prolly get raises.
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Does anyone else think that we could alleviate some of her burdens by not mass migrating the third world over to lower job vacancies/demands? Ya know supply and demand but for workers and business's? As well as making it illegal to outsource/import cheap labor (h1b1 visa's) and place higher tariffs on the slave made goods being imported in to counter act the effects to low wage americans and to lower taxes for poorer Americans at low tax brackets, make slave traders subsidize our less advantaged?
Who am I kidding this woman sounds like she would support some of it and call the rest racist, she made her bed.
That's the "beauty" of this system. You can fuck over the regular blue collars while employing illegals under the table all day.