• fafferlicious@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      So your answer is “Trust me, bro. We don’t need to study this. It’s obvious bro everyone knows or. Just don’t do it. Don’t raise wages bro it’s bad. I promise. Everyone already knows this. There’s no research for it But we know it’s true. Trust me.”

      I just want to make sure I understand your logic correctly.

      • MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 days ago

        I don’t have the energy to look everything up right now. Too high MW leads to rising unemployment. America is huge and has economic powerhouses like California but also Puerto Rico and imma just call them republican states.

        15$/h in Cali makes sense. In Mississippi it’s probably the upper upper end of what’s maybe possible. Legislating this federally either requires a formula to fit it to the local economy or it needs to be lower than what makes sense for California.

        From what I vaguely remember 12$/h was OK but don’t quote me on that.

        7.5$/h is too low, just 15$/h might be too high.