So, here's what I don't get about being anti-minimum/living wage laws: We're told that the safety net will stifle people because...
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...if you're "taken care of," there's no drive to innovate/create/etc. Problem there is, I don't know ANY driven/creative/ambitious people..
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...who I can imagine quitting because they suddenly had a BASIC, livable existence. No one ever says "Well, I WAS gonna re-invent th wheel..
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...but now that I've got EXACTLY enough income to *not die,* I've suddenly lost all drive and determination." Doesn't happen.
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I mean, recent example? Kanye West. Born into comfort, grew up decently well off... SOMEHOW, still decided obscenely-wealthy was better ;)
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Self-example? I grew up in th suburbs. Wanted for nothing in necessities & very little in extraneous comforts. White, male, "set" basicaly..
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..by the "bootstraps" logic, I should lack the drive to do ANYTHING with my life because I didn't have a "character-building" struggle...
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...and yet instead I work really hard at what I do, and am forever unsatisfied/restless. I wanna be "Movie About My Comeuppance" rich.
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And I'm pretty damn sure I'd want that regardless. TL;DR: Give these people their fucking $15, the "next Steve Job" will STILL appear.
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@the_moviebob he will appear faster because he doesn't have to waste his fucking life climbing up a greased ladder
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