My goodness, you're a fucking idiot. Those are the results of advancing technologies, not increases to minimum wage, which companies regularly take advantage of to cut costs whether the minimum wage is raised or not. Companies already paying more than minimum wage do that and minimum wage paying companies do that even when the minimum wage is not increased. That has nothing to do with the minimum wage. And must you be reminded, you already made the asinine claim that minimum wage jobs are being offshored or given to illegal aliens? It's too late to change your idiotic point, you already made it. Are you capable of not being a moron?You are wrong, the result of raising minimum wage on services companies like McDonalds and Grocery stores is automated service. Eg. frozen pre-prepared food, push buttons, touch screens, and ring it up yourself.But you're a rightwingnut who doesn't understand that companies paying minimum wage rarely resort to those measures. The majority of minimum wage jobs are food and hospitality services. Companies like McDonald's are neither hiring illegal aliens for less than minimum wage or moving their fry cooks offshore. Companies are far more likely to raise their prices than fire employees, whom they need to run their business, to compensate the higher salaries. And as shown in the chart I posted, sometimes unemployment goes up after a minimum wage hike ... and sometimes it goes down.That's not what I said. I said "tied to whether minimum wage increases are tied to legality of off-shoring, and importing illegal and h1b labor." I did not say "minimum wage increases unemployment."The part where you said, "minimum wage increases unemployment." It does not.What part of my statement "tied to whether minimum wage increases are tied to legality of off-shoring, and importing illegal and h1b labor" confused you so bad that you think I meant the opposite of what I said?
Can you tell the difference? Do you or do you not understand that employers have a choice when you raise minimum wage. Their choice is give those people a raise or fire them and replace them will illegal workers off shore workers... or just fire the higher paid folk and off shore those jobs to make up for the payroll increase. Happens every time minimum wage goes up. People loose jobs.
You're a fucking liar and a pussy. You have miss-represented what I said, yet again on a separate topic in a vain attempt to move the goal posts.
Whether to go with automated systems or people is a matter of cost, profitability, and customer satisfaction.