Raising the minimum wage, unless you ask sketchy bought-and-paid-for economists, turns out to be a good thing, actually: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html

[codinghorror@infosec.exchange]

Raising the minimum wage, unless you ask sketchy bought-and-paid-for economists, turns out to be a good thing, actually: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html

[liquid@infosec.exchange]

@codinghorror not sure why this isn't obvious to everyone!

[untouchedwagons@mstdn.ca]

@codinghorror I'm reminded of when the province of Ontario was planning on merging the General Sales Tax and Provincial Sales Tax into the Harmonized Sales Tax and all sorts of businesses were losing their minds. Everything was fine.

[teamonkey@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror I am hugely confused by that page because if you keep scrolling down you get different news articles with completely opposite spins on the same story.

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@liquid @codinghorror

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@codinghorror it's funny how economists say incentives are everything, but get all huffy when you suggest who funds their paycheck influences their opinions.

[codinghorror@infosec.exchange]

@liquid when someone's salary depends on it not being obvious, somehow that tends to happen

[lkanies@hachyderm.io]

@codinghorror now now, some of those economists are actually ideologically opposed to poor people being paid a living wage