Businesses can adapt for the most part, they’re just not quite there yet, but they will be in 10 years. Raising wages to $30/hour tomorrow would only accelerate that. The real long term fix isn’t raising the minimum wage, it’s making those workers valuable enough that they WILL be paid $30/hour, minimum wage or not, because they bring value to the table. That also pays huge dividends for society.
The real answer to the wage issue is in things like coding bootcamps, and Khan Academy. It’s what people have in their brains.
Businesses can adapt for the most part, they’re just not quite there yet, but they will be in 10 years. Raising wages to $30/hour tomorrow would only accelerate that. The real long term fix isn’t raising the minimum wage, it’s making those workers valuable enough that they WILL be paid $30/hour, minimum wage or not, because they bring value to the table. That also pays huge dividends for society.
The real answer to the wage issue is in things like coding bootcamps, and Khan Academy. It’s what people have in their brains.