Wouldn’t the business just increase the cost to adapt to the higher labor cost? I think it also drive businesses to seek automation which smaller businesses probably wouldn’t have the same ability to pursue. To me it makes more sense to leave it to states and have it gradually increase I don’t have a super strong opinion on it though.

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I didn’t say it would magically destroy all small businesses. Just that it would hurt them. Small businesses operate on razor thin margins which increases in minimum wage would cut into. So they would either have to raise prices, fire employees, or close. I don’t really care if any of that happens but a lot of people do.

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I would assume it doesn’t bc it’s done gradually state to state like I’m for. I imagine if you do a sudden broad increase it would. How is that a hypothetical you don’t think large corporation have a greater ability to invest in automation?

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Yes but you would be paying less in labor meaning you’re hiring less people if the labor is more skilled. Otherwise you wouldn’t automate.

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Regardless it was a yes or no question do larger companies have a greater ability to invest in automation relative to small businesses

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Anonymous brattybottom51 23w

I think instead we should prioritize changes to the housing sector and becoming food secure again. Farming in the US imo is getting decadent, so we will need reforms there. Make firms accountable for the strain they put on our electrical grid and put money into our infrastructure. I think those would do more good than just raising the minimum wage. It should raise but it won’t do any good if we don’t fix the above.

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Anonymous brattybottom51 23w

Wait what? Framing in the US is not getting decadent—quite the opposite. See this video for example: https://youtu.be/r5xxTIPKY8s?si=88ojPm8LRfOZycfz

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Literally no one said that, the topic was does a minimum wage advantage large companies relative to small companies. But ok

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Bro idk who you’re arguing against I literally said I was fine with min wage increases.

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You said when you said it was just a hypothetical when it’s clearly true.

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You just gave an example with Facebook did you lie lol?

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You keep shifting the goal post we’re not talking about if they’re holding off rn we’re talking about if large companies have a relative advantage. I agree it’s nuanced and companies can’t just automate everything.

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Anonymous #6 23w

That video (which I watched before making my argument) proves my point. Farming is getting decadent because of the financial incentives. Private Equity, Land Speculation, and the financial squeeze on smaller farms make farming worse. When the Agriculture business makes less money on agriculture and more on the financial sector, then yes Farming is getting decadent.

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Sure that hasn’t been my experience anecdotally I’ve seen automation in large chain restaurants, and grocery stores were they do compete with smaller businesses, but that’s my limited experience.

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