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To people who think #mineage should not be raised, what will you do when Junior has a degree and $100K of debt, and cannot find work that pays enough to live on?
Granted, most #smallbiz will strughgle or fail if the increase comes too quickly, but when someone pays $2,000,000 for the right to buy and operate a Gree-C Burger franchise, they have the resources to pay their employees more than $7 per hour.
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> They knew they had two very similar labour markets, but they also realised they had a control group (Pennsylvania) where nothing was going to change, and a treatment group (New Jersey) where nothing was going to change except for one variable: the increase in the minimum wage.
> So, they surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the rise in the minimum wage.
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13β¦
> However, their findings weren't welcomed by the establishment.
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> American economist James Buchanan, a Nobel Laureate himself (in 1986), was scathing of the suggestion that a core "law" of economics might not be universal after all.
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> "Just as no physicist would claim that 'water runs uphill,' no self-respecting economist would claim that increases in the minimum wage increase employment."
/via pod.haxxors.com/posts/65bdd9e0β¦ @Kevin O'Brien
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.
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@clacke Smaller studies in localized areas suggest the same thing.
Also anecdotes, such as the shopping mall that overlapped two cities' mutual boundary. When one city raised its minwage, shops in their side of the mall were besieged with applications from people working in the other side. Some employers on the low-wage side ended up matching the high-wage side's pay scale in order to keep employees.
And this was before coronavirus, so government unemployment subsidies were not the cause. !econusa
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#USGS reports M6.1 #earthquake in the ocean near #Vanuatu at 07:26 UTC. No #tsunami expected.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ and https://tsunami.gov/
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@Steffen K9 π° libranet.de/contact/902261/posβ¦ works fine, but when I go to libranet.de/contact/902261/conβ¦ it 500s. Curious.
(it's lain@lain.com)
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"Nobody wants to work anymore" has big time "Girls don't want to date nice guys" energy
twitit.gq/bradbatt/status/1392β¦
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Thank you! I will try to call in that offer one day.
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NYC is about 3000 square miles in area, and I've only walked around in an area about four miles long and a mile wide. That said, the thing I'm noticing most is that it is cramped and dingy. The skyscrapers look clean on the outside, but most other buildings seem to be dirty and stained. I haven't gotten close enough to one of the buildings to say whether the buildings are growing fungus, like they would in parts of Louisiana (in which case, it wouldn't be that the building's exterior is dirty, more that it has something growing in every crack and crevice.
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@Alexandre Oliva @FiXato I wish I had known! We went to Rio a decade ago. I would love to come back to Brazil some day.
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SOURCES: https://www.timeanddate.com/on-this-day/october/17 AND https://www.onthisday.com/events/october/17 AND https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/october-17
* 1989--The Loma Prieta (aka "World Series") earthquake rocks Northern and Central California
* 1973--OPEC oil embargo begins
* 1933--Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee from the Nazis
* 1888--Thomas Edison files a patent for the first motion pictures
* 1863--General Ulysses S Grant placed in charge of the US (Union) Western forces
* 1244-Sixth crusade ends after crushing defeat at Gaza.
* 79--Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii and other towns
I really had no idea when most of those things happened.
#TIH #Today_In_History
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For several days now, βthis songβ:{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq8k-ZbsXDI} has been playing in my head. Congratulations to the Doors. They are the latest group from the #1960s and #1970s to have earned a spot on my βbuy the CDβ list.
(I have always liked this song and there are others I also like.)
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Walked around the office and saw that only about twenty people are here today. Zero from other agencies. Maybe it is time to close down completely on Sundays.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/283221 [www theguardian com]
Museum opens #OnlyFans account to display nude artworks because its mainstream SocNet accounts keep getting banned.
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ARST ARSW: Star Wars sorted alphabetically
All of the English dialogue in "Star Wars", split into words, and sorted alphabetically.
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I labeled the words manually (!) using some software I wrote specifically for the purpose.
invidious-us.kavin.rocks/watchβ¦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GFW-eβ¦
https://libranet.de/photos/clacke/image/8775487161616bf3ffe72c3682347580
/via icosahedron.website/@technomanβ¦
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I'd find a phrase in the audio, then type "if this is a consular ship where is the ambassador" and it'd just split up that loop into 10 mini-loops of the same length, one for each word. Obviously "if" is much shorter than "ambassador", so then I'd go and adjust the edges of those loops with the keyboard. I made tweaks to the program as I went, to make it efficient and fun-ish, and eventually got pretty fast at it.
radar.spacebar.org/f/a/weblog/β¦
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/america-supply-chain-shortages [www theguardian com]
Seen in the trees.
This is all stuff that we knew could happen since at least the 1990s. I remember when industry leaders were praising "lean manufacturing", in which their supplies would be delivered just in time and their production would modulate to fit demand, so that inventories would be a thing of the past.
Others were pointing out that if your supplier is halfway across the country, there's always going to be some risk of delayed shipments ... and that therefore, it would always be necessary to hold inventory.
Some were pointing out that large companies tend to be inflexible and unresponsive, and that the existence of smaller, more nimble (and more local) competitors was essential to US competitiveness, even if that meant that products and services cost a little more.
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!econusa
Following from https://nu.federati.net/notice/3382919
I also remember the concerns that it was easier to make money by being a financier than by making and selling things ... which is not a good thing by any means.
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Also ... industry consolidation, followed by closing "excess capacity" and eliminating as much inventory (both incoming and outgoing) as possible
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When I went to the doctor because of an ear infection, she told me my ears are too clean (that is, that she can tell I regularly use q-tips to clean my ears). I've been trying not to do so as often, but I can feel the wax and dirt accumulating and it drives me nuts.
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> Shooting the Messenger
> And finally, in an incredibly disappointing story, the governor of Missouri has referred a journalist for prosecution for discovering and responsibly disclosing an information leak in a state website. The flaw in the Stateβs Department of Education website potentially exposed the social security numbers of teachers.
https://nu.federati.net/url/283214
#MO
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My account over on decept appears to be broken. I'll seek a replacement soon. I liked it there (theme, the quietness, and most of the on-site users).
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Rain clouds coming in.
#nyc #weather https://nu.federati.net/attachment/283213
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Chekov's waterline mark
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K sent me some expensive looking fragrance in a tiny bottle.
I don't know if he's trying to tell me something about my aroma.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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