Who would have thought this would have happened?

  • NeuromancerOPM
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    -168 months ago

    The total job market is reducing. That means there will be fewer jobs. California already has higher unemployment. So they just created a worse situation for these people. The job market for them keep getting smaller.

    • @BunkerBuster
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      118 months ago

      Your belief in a fair market has you blaming all the wrong people for all the wrong things.

      • NeuromancerOPM
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        -118 months ago

        Wages are set by supply and demand. I blame the correct person in this situation. The California government

          • NeuromancerOPM
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            -108 months ago

            No, the workers blame the government as well. The government is the one who took their jobs away.

            • @BunkerBuster
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              78 months ago

              If a company can’t afford to pay their employees a livable wage, they deserve to go under. Yeah it sucks for the workers but so does staying with a company that can’t pay them. Stop licking boots.

              • NeuromancerOPM
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                -128 months ago

                You’re licking boots.

                The people were living on their current wage. They were happy with their wage. It’s in the article.

                Now they have no job and no wages. Now they are sad.

                Their wage was liveable to them. Now it’s not. The market was working fine until the government got in the middle and took away their jobs.

                • @BunkerBuster
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                  8 months ago

                  “He did blame it on the minimum wage increase. Although, from my understanding, I think we were exempt from it because of the amount of locations that he personally owns. But, he did ultimately blame it on that increase,” she said.

                  How about this for a new title: “Salty Restaurant owner doesn’t like new law that doesn’t apply to him, fires everyone anyway”

                  Gotta love the free market, right?

                  You’re licking corporate boot to defend shitty business practices.

                  • NeuromancerOPM
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                    -108 months ago

                    The law does apply to him. She’s incorrect.

                    A better title would be California governor causes mass layoffs.

                    The owner has no obligation to provide jobs. If the risk isn’t worth the reward, he’ll shut down. That’s how it works.

    • m-p{3}
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      8 months ago

      With the raising cost of living, the job market is going to shrink, minimum wage increase or not. It just means that the more fortunate need to pay more to those who are less fortunate if they want to employ someone.

      The market obviously can’t regulate itself correctly and needs a little nudge if someone can’t make a living wage from a full-time job. It’s not normal for someone working their asses off full-time and still barely make ends meet and living in squalor. Someone has to give, and these employees are already giving their fair share, it’s justified to ensure they get their slice of the pie.

      If they can’t afford to pay a decent wage, then that job has no reason to exist.

      • NeuromancerOPM
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        -118 months ago

        The market obviously can’t regulate itself correctly and needs a little nudge if someone can’t make a living wage from a full-time job.

        They were living before and now they have no money. The market was working fine.