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Jorycle t1_iraaxsq wrote

>“My concern is those young people who are trying to get into the labor force that don’t have the skills to be worth $11 or $13 or up to $15 an hour as it gets there in 2026,” says Dr. Parrish.

While he also has some good things to say about the increase, this is a terrible argument.

The minimum wage is going up simply because that's what's needed to pay the bills. Florida has people who work full time but are homeless. That's silliness. To say nothing of young workers being less than 20% of minimum wage workers - so why should at least 80% of that class of workers live in poverty because of some hypothetical "skills" argument of an extreme minority?

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Ok_Kale_2509 t1_irbsicn wrote

Because somehow people are convinced that straw man is the norm. My BIL worked at burger King. When asked je will tell you most of the employees were people out of highschool. If you ask him about minimum wage he will tell you a highschooler flipping burgers doesn't deserve more than that.

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