If your biz model is based on paying slave wages - your business deserves to fail

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16. That's a bit harsh.

Rural area businesses could be destroyed by it. $15 is definitely different in places that have a million people to draw business from versus places that have a thousand. The dollar has different value from location to location as well. Six hundred bucks a week before taxes is nothing in New York or San Francisco but in Bumblefuck, Mississippi it’s a whole different thing. Saying that people deserve to have their businesses fail because they couldn’t make it paying people more than they can afford to based on income is pretty hard hearted. Mom and pop stores in small towns would disappear even faster than they are already. And the Walmarts and Costcos of the world aren’t going to move in to fill the void because the customer base isn’t there to justify their stores.

We should have been gradually moving toward this over the years so it wouldn’t be the system shock that doubling it overnight will be for a lot of businesses.

I’m not sure what the fair way to do this would be.