Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Nov 6 2021 03:15am)
Here's the thing. You won't find basically anybody conservative in science. The reason is pretty simple. To go further than slightly right of center you need to fall for really obvious propaganda. When people claim "raising minimum wage kills jobs", we have the expertise to actually look at the studies and realize no, that's not supported by the literature at all. Or when Republicans try to say CRT is killing the country, we can do the search and realize that no, CRT is basically isolated to graduate courses and law schools and nobody is actually learning about this in any meaningful capacity outside of those institutions.
You get the occasional nutter like EndlessSky, who can't do basic percentage calculations, but those are generally people who stopped at getting a C+ in their undergrad degrees and couldn't go any further.
So me, living in the real world, can enlighten you on minimum wage. I get a weekly number which I can divide among my employees. This is based on sales and labor from the previous five years, and a few other factors I won’t boggle your “educated” mind with. When minimum wage increases, that does not get factored into my payroll. It is determined by a five year trend. Wages have gone up over 20% in the past five years in this state. This means I have say 20% less money going towards the same number of man hours. This means I have less money to spread around.
This January alone I lost on average 49 hours of payroll per week with JUST this years wage increase. That is the equivalent of two part time positions.
Again I ask, what fucking world do you live in?
Mind you that was a department of about 35 people, give or take.
This post was edited by WickedDarkJuggalos on Nov 6 2021 01:26am