Agreed. In a robust employment market, lawmakers will raise the minimum wage to a level that is still lower than the market rate. The effect is pretty much zilch except for the lowest of the low-level employee. For them, the minimum wage acts as a safety net.
No matter the methodology in this report, common sense tells otherwise. It's a basic economic tenet that as the price of a good or service raises, less is purchased (Except for Giffen goods [1]).
As a thought exercise, consider the effect of raising the minimum wage to $100 in a town. What would happen to restaurants in that town? They would have to raise their prices drastically to cover the new expenses. Customers who were accustomed to eating out would flinch at the much higher prices and either eat at home or go to a neighboring town. The end result would be closed restaurants in the town and fewer jobs. Of course with a much smaller raise in the minimum wage in the town, the effect would likely be lost in the standard noise of restaurants closing and opening but the effect would still be true.
I remember my first time in international First Class. A very spacious seat. Personal service. Continuous champagne, caviar, goose-liver pate, Godiva chocolates, etc, etc, etc. All on linen with silver silverware. Since then, I've flown first class a number of times. Most recently, a friend offered me a "free" upgrade certificate for a flight from Heathrow to Chicago. After fees and taxes, it would have cost me $100. I declined. Been there. Done that. I rationalized that after the trip was over the jet-lag was gone and the flight was just a blurred memory, I'd rather have the $100.
If you use these airline cards thoughtfully, they're a great deal for the consumer. Last year United offered both myself and my wife 50K miles to sign up with no annual fee for the first year. Then they threw in some club passes and more miles when we added each other, spent some amount, etc. We ended up each getting 55K miles or so. Then United had a mileage sale for tickets to Australia - 60K miles per roundtrip ticket. Combined with the miles we already had, we ended up with two free round-trip tickets from the US to Australia. Of course we never carried a balance on the cards and cancelled them before the yearly fee came in. Now we'll wait a year and sign up again.
I often wondered how slave holders justified their actions. And along those lines, I recall a lecture on Roman slavery. It made the point that it was standard-practice in Roman and other ancient cultures to raid other groups, kill everyone and take their possessions: livestock, food, valuables, etc. That was the way of the world that everyone knew. In the Roman mind, when the raiding party decided to let some people live and sell them into slavery, they were doing the captives a favor. They were saved from death. And from then on the slaves were more-or-less the walking dead with no rights and owing their "masters" everything. They were only alive because of the grace of the invaders. The lecture also noted that there was no writing from Roman times that questioned the morality of slavery. No one thought it was wrong. There are extensive writings from literate slaves themselves, and even these writings fail to question the morality of slavery. And speaking of writing, the Bible was written in a time when slavery was common practice. I don't recall Jesus preaching against slavery or the 10 Commandments coming out against it either.
The other thing to remember about garage springs is that they can and do break spontaneously with extreme force causing parts to fly off in all directions. The springs should be replaced on a regular basis. We've lived in our house for a long time, and twice we've had them break while the door was closed and idle. The first time it occurred we heard a tremendous racket in the garage and upon inspection, we found that the spring had broken lose and whipped around causing most of the noise as it bounced off of walls. The cause of the failure was the hook at the end of the spring breaking. It shot off denting a car. I'd hate to think what could have happened if someone had been in the garage at the time. We learned that you can and should buy cables that run inside the spring so upon failure, the larger part will at least be restrained.
A brilliant showman. If you can make your way through the corny "Rock! Rock! Rock!"[1] movie of 1957 you'll see some pretty awful performances from artists of the day. But then on comes Berry[2] His segment was heads-and-shoulders above the rest and still enjoyable today.
McDelivery is leaking personal data for more than 2.2 million of its users which includes name, email address, phone number, home address, accurate home co-ordinates and social profile links.
I know the world has changed, but many of us remember being given a list of everyone in our city's name, home address, and phone number. The Phone Book. And I recall it was unusual not be be listed in the phone book. My father was prominent in our community, and we were always in it. We'd occasionally get calls from a someone angry at my father, but it wasn't a problem. Different times...
I recall back in the day being very confused when I first saw the US release, but then several years later watching the original. I didn't know the back-story of the film. I recall thinking "I've seen this movie, but this scene wasn't in it, neither was this, what the hell?" This was obviously pre-Internet, so it wasn't easy to figure out what had happened to the movie if you weren't following the trades.
they can actively filter hate speech or abusive posts just fine
And how, pray tell, do you identify "hate speech"? Who's the judge? You're going to get a different answer in Iran than you do in Switzerland. Not to mention the obvious, that the answer to to speech you don't like, is more speech, not censorship.
If collecting jokes tells you what the "common man" is thinking, the Russian intelligence agencies must be having a field-day with the current situation in the US...
Although it's widely used for general censorship, the DCMA is supposed to only cover copyright issues. So the parent comment's concern about "anti-ageism" posts would not be a DCMA issue.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects services from being responsible for what users post:
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"
As pointed out by other comments here, this is not happening as much in Asia where labor and regulatory costs are lower. The parent comment has a valid point. It's a balance. Higher labor and regulatory costs tilt the scales toward automation.
Paying people below a certain level is tantamount to taking government subsidies.
And the flip side to that: A minimum wage higher than the market rate, is tantamount to employees taking company subsidies which inevitably is passed on to consumers via higher prices.
Brings back memories. If I recall correctly, when you had this turned on, files would get a hidden extension of .1 .2 .3 etc. And you could specify how many revisions to keep around? I also recall on our system, most of the time this was turned off because disk space was so precious. But I do recall this feature saving my bacon a time or two...
It's been a long time since I've used VMS, but one neat feature I recall was sort of a system/group/user concept of environment variables. For example if you set an environment variable at the system level, the new value would immediately be reflected for all users. Powerful concept.
Anyone remember Tom's Rescue Disk? This linux-on-a-floppy was a must-have for rescue and recover back in the day... The web site lives on, but many of the links are 404'd
And returning that money to shareholders (dividends) would incur income tax to the recipient, thus the tax-man gets his due. A much better outcome than just holding cash overseas
Of course there's a danger to the company in this. "My bonus is tied to my diversity goals. I've tried hard, but I'm way behind and my reporting period is almost up! Quick, bypass the standard screening and qualification checks, and hire a bunch of people in underrepresented groups"