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57 points

It just means “no prior knowledge required”. It’s not a myth lol

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6 points

Even McDonalds trains you to use the equipment before they let you use it.

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14 points

… which is usually a matter of hours, not several years of academic studies

See the difference ?

Want someone to sweep the floor ? You can quite literally grab some one off the street and tell them to do it, with some amount of success.

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-6 points

Your words:

It just means “no prior knowledge required”

If you need to be trained, then I guess McDonald’s is skilled labor.

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-19 points

Then why is it justified to pay people poverty wages? Your answer doesn’t cover that.

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23 points

I didn’t claim it was justified?

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22 points

It doesn’t cover that because it didn’t cover that. You don’t have to address the totality of a situation to comment on it. Lemmy is particularly bad at this concept.

A comment is a comment, not a through rebuttal

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Strawman fallacy. They (Dangblingus) tried to argue with a completely different topic to try and discredit the argument, without acknowledging the difference.

Edit: since everyone interpreted this wrong.

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Then why is it justified to pay people poverty wages?

The actual problem isn’t that the wages are low, but that the standard for living is so expensive. That happens because of government decisions: zoning restrictions, bureacracy, high taxes to mention a few. These decisions always hurt the lowest income bracket the worst while benefitting the higher brackets. If we let markets flow naturally, things like this would be greatly improved.

Trying to fix all that with rising minimum wage is like trying to fix a dam you built out of straws with bubble gum.

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LMAO no, taxes used correctly would end up solving most of these problems. Government influence in housing markets would solve these problems.
Letting Nestle draw even more drinking water to turn into mountain dew doesnt.

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