re: Minimum wage battle is going to destroy small businesses!

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That's your opinion, and the market will decide if your opinion is correct. We don't need the government saying all types of work are worth whatever arbitrary number they pick off the dart board.

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The government has arbitrarily decided economic winners and losers for my whole lifetime.

Financial crisis- AIG employees here is your taxpayer funded bonus. Lehman employees enjoy the breadline.

COVID- Let’s force everyone to shop at a handful of massive grocery chains and online retailers based on speculative science.

All of our country’s most powerful companies, Apple, Google, Meta, etc., are derivative of government-funded research. Our largest trade partner is a communist nation.

This let the market decide narrative is nonsense. We haven’t lived in a free market system for decades, and yet fake conservative media types only seem to complain about this when it negatively affects the elite class.

Ask yourself this, if we were really living in a free market system, do you think every major corporation would push the same social politics? Do you think the invisible hand is leading to these job postings that only accept POC or LGBT applicants?

Be against a minimum wage if you like. I don’t think it makes a positive or negative difference. It’s just an inflationary pressure. But if your reasoning is, “but the free market,” you need a reality check.