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A higher federal minimum wage [...] would destroy lower cost of living states.

No. It would probably be better for it to come in incrementally, but increasing wages would help, even if it might squeeze some small businesses. Having looked at the balance sheet for more than one small business, wages are rarely the most significant cost, and when they are the profit margins are larger.

Every time the minimum wage increased while I was a kid, my father (a small business owner) complained, but the county got better overall. Any business that closed was replaced with two that provided the same goods/services within 6 months.

If you look at the data from states raising their minimum wages, you won't see either massive price increases (some, tho generally tracking inflation) or a large decrease in small businesses per capita.

I agree it isn't enough. I want UBI and Medicare4All and post-secondary education (including trade schools) free to accepted students, and so much more.

But, I will gladly take a federal minimum wage increase. I do think it should be set based on cost of living in the cheapest/poorest states, and that some states should have an even higher minimum wage.

(I would not directly benefit, I'm currently unemployed, but generally paid significantly more than minimum wage [I'm a computer programmer by trade.].)

Any full time position should be able to afford someone all necessities. If not, it’s the very definition of exploitation.

So Say We All

Didn't you hear? Due process is suspended indefinitely. /s (sorta)

Yay, my state was mentioned.

Did you hear our Gov. Sanders (no relation) wants to allow child labor at below minimum wage, and increase the number of positions that can pay minimum-tipped-wages of $2.13/hr ?

Federal minimum wage should indeed increased. But, I have heard people recently complaining that McDonalds workers shouldn't be receiving a living wage, because they worked at McDonalds 5 decades ago. I keep my mouth shut and yearn to move away when my familial duties are complete (or my will is exhausted).

the USA is running a death camp in El Salvador called CECOT

True

stop using their death machine money

Good advice, though a little hard to do if you are in America.

americans don’t deserve anything

And, here's your source of downvotes. People, even really shitty people, deserve food, water, and shelter, at a minimum. Shitty people (including a too large number of Americans) don't have to be heard, and shouldn't be given any political power, but they are still sentient beings that didn't ask to be here, and don't deserve pain or suffering.

/s ?

You know, I bet there'd be a lot fewer pretty crimes if we were all given a 1600/mo UBI.

It reverses the natural flow of the conversation.

Why is top-posting so bad?

Top-posting.

What's the worst thing I can do when writing a reply to the mailing list?

1. No, we can test groksponk without flibbertygibbet. But, when rolling to production, flubbertygibbet will need to be in place before grokspunk due to how the gonksponk end-user documentation is written (at least, for now).

2. Oh, sorry, "doohicky" is how me and my team call them. They are actually , specifically chapter 4, section 2 (in my 2012 copy it is titled "Hippydip Operations and Serialization"). Hopefully that connects well with the existing goober documentation, but let me know if you need further details/clarification.

On average a communication has more readers than writers, so it is better for writer(s) to use effort in order to save effort on the behalf of the reader(s).

This was especially true in the days of mailing lists and me having to beat TOFU users about the head with a clue-by-4. But, it remains true today. The median communication might be 1 to 1, but it's much more frequent for additional readers to be added that additional writers, so maximum effort with writing is still true.

But, man, it is annoys the heck out of me when I compose informative, contexual email/SMS with several open-ended questions and get back: "yes".

Population density is relevant here, I'm not grabbing a lot of extra uninhabited territory to make the number bigger, I'm just using the smallest organizational unit that includes all my weekly trips.