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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 15

      Austen Allred Retweeted Benjy Sarlin

      "What can we do to help poor and marginalized people?" "Let's tax the people that hire them!"https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/996382834494353408 …

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      Benjy SarlinVerified account @BenjySarlin
      Sherrod Brown talking up an idea that could gain ground with D's: Legislation requiring companies whose workers make enough to qualify for food stamps to pay a "corprorate freeloader fee" to taxpayers
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      6 replies 8 retweets 69 likes
    2. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      Idea being here that it would probably be cheaper to just pay them more, fixing both problems.

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 15
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      And the assumption being that if you require companies to pay more they will continue to do at the same rates, which we've seen hundreds of times isn't true

      9:11 PM - 15 May 2018
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        2. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          1/ No, of course they wouldn't. But, if we continue with the theory behind this idea, it's better to have fewer people at a company being paid a reasonable living wage.

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        3. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
          Replying to @Thwiv @AustenAllred

          2/ It posits that companies are taking advantage of government programs in order to pay people less than they would ordinarily be able to survive on, and so we should force them to pay for it. We don't need more jobs, unemployment is not low. We need better paying jobs.

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        4. Thwiv‏ @Thwiv May 15
          Replying to @Thwiv @AustenAllred

          end/ Whether this idea holds water is, as we say, an exercise left to the reader. But it's not unsound.

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        1. Robb Ponti‏ @RobbPonti May 16
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          Robb Ponti Retweeted Noah Smith

          The latest empirical studies don’t support this pure supply and demand view of labor markets. Implications are pretty big for employers so it’s worth considering. @Noahpinion has done some good summarieshttps://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/981891609229836288?s=21 …

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          Noah SmithVerified account @Noahpinion
          The evidence that minimum wage kills either no jobs or very few jobs is starting to look overwhelming. pic.twitter.com/92i6lTfw4j
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