The minimum wage has little to no relation to the unemployment PROOF:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w4509
“On April 1, 1992 New Jersey’s minimum wage increased from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the rise in the minimum. Comparisons of the changes in wages, employment, and prices at stores in New Jersey relative to stores in Pennsylvania (where the minimum wage remained fixed at $4.25 per hour) yield simple estimates of the effect of the higher minimum wage. Our empirical findings challenge the prediction that a rise in the minimum reduces employment. Relative to stores in Pennsylvania, fast food restaurants in New Jersey increased employment by 13 percent. We also compare employment growth at stores in New Jersey that were initially paying high wages (and were unaffected by the new law) to employment changes at lower-wage stores. Stores that were unaffected by the minimum wage had the same employment growth as stores in Pennsylvania, while stores that had to increase their wages increased their employment.”
American businesses have proven that they don’t give a rat’s ass about figures. They simply want to control lives. It’s a new breed since the “greatest generation”. It’s people who have been brought up on “emotions” during the seventies and eighties, and now, the nineties and naughts have produced a generation that is totally based on lies and cheating, due to the internet.
Employers today only pretend to care about these “profit margins” and “trickle down” economics. They are obsessed with their control, with owning all access to control, and making sure none of us upstarts ever get a foot in the door. They are relentless and vindictive. I’ve been around long enough to know. Those from today’s generation have no choice but to comply, or be out with the rest of us.
Secondly, “in the field”, the raise to 9 an hour doesn’t truly mean he only makes the employer a one dollar profit margin, because you can’t seperate team effort. If you remove a shortstop, a second baseman isn’t going to cover the ground, and runners get on base. If you remove a second baseman, the same happens. It’s all simply bull crap that any one cog is more important than another. The one making 13 an hour is making more than the 11 that is “assigned” to the unskilled worker.
These “assigned” values are simply excuses with no basis in truth, meant so that some people can be affluent, and others not, meant so that some useless boss who just wears a tie and walks around to be worshipped can make a million dollars. Face the facts. You can fool the young and naive, but you can’t fool the educated who have had experience.
There’s plenty of good empirical evidence that prove minimum wage laws d ogreater good than bad - Like limited work weeks, workplace safety regulations, child labor laws, environmental protections, guaranteed union rights and so on, minimum wage statutes limit the ability of corporate entities to abuse and oppress their employees, communities and environments.
If you want to see what the workplace can be like absent such guarantees, regulations and protections, just look at places like burma today and china a decade or two ago. factories as virtual prisons. corporations employing thuggish militias. massive ecological damage. workers making just enough to live 10 to a room in abject poverty.
