re: #14 FriendsofHummus

Yeah true that. It’s stupid. Just because increasing the minimum wage to a really high number like 30 or 100 is economically unfeasible doesn’t mean it’s unfeasible to propose an increase. Idiots don’t seem to understand how a consumer economy actually works.

It is deliberate. The number is made unrealistically high, then the resulting straw man is beaten severely.

Meanwhile the sense and feasibility of the original proposal is forgotten.

However, this business of fighting over the minimum wage does make it very clear that some of the wealthy overlords really take delight in grinding the working poor into dust.