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Ze Frank's True Facts: Deception in the Rainforest

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Belafon3/05/2021 9:28:52 am PST

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Although $15 might be enough for a subsistence wage in WVA, it is still a starvation wage in most large urban areas…

Local areas should be able to do more, but what the federal minimum wage does is set a bottom for how much a company has to pay an employee, in effect, a company cannot decide that they can squeeze more money out by reducing pay for employees. This reduces the ability for a company to abuse its employees to have lower costs. It’s similar to requiring that all companies have to follow environmental regulations so that not only does it help the environment, but they all have to incur the same costs.