(11-25-2020, 07:31 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-25-2020, 05:17 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Research? No. Evidence? Yes.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/business/...index.html

https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-r...imum-wage/

I'm sure I could go on if I cared to waste the time, but that should be all you need. Amazon and Walmart both lobbying congress to raise minimum wage? These guys are true humanitarians.

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I'm not opposed to labor laws, but I think politicians are saps. They are bought and paid for by lobbyists, and I don't trust any labor laws coming out of our Congress.

I'm not going to be so naive to say that Amazon and Walmart have goodness in their hearts.
I am going to say that they're trying to seek out halos from wherever they can get them. They are publicly supporting higher wages because they want to be "in" with a more conscientious consumer.
I don't think they're considering how that might affect their competition. 
And if they are, they probably get the same Google results as me when I search for it: the relationship between increases in the minimum wage and the demand for labor, from businesses both large and small, is ambiguous, and probably not causal.

You need to stop using google. For many reasons other than your bad results, try DuckDuckGo or even bing. Increases in minimum wage always leads to a decrease in jobs. 

Also Walmart and Amazon are absolutely aware that higher minimum wage hurts their small competition more than it hurts giants. They are, no doubt, virtue signaling, but they are willing to take extra regulation if it makes it harder for competition to emerge. Car manufacturers have done this for years.

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