The minimum wage in Seattle–Tacoma, Washington is $15.34 per hour, which is running smack dab into the future. Check it out:
Automated McDonald's ordering kiosk at SeaTac Airport, home of the $15.34 minimum wage pic.twitter.com/LKTKV01Ds4
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) November 3, 2017
Who could’ve predicted this?
"Dismissed as coincidence…." https://t.co/07zHYWuCHG
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 4, 2017
Gee, I wonder if there is a connection? https://t.co/ojpEHdppPg
— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) November 3, 2017
Who could have seen this coming https://t.co/oxFISpzwIN
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) November 3, 2017
Now, some are arguing that the kiosks have nothing to do with the high wages in the Seattle area:
https://twitter.com/MatthewNussbaum/status/926603668287295490
https://twitter.com/HawkinsUSA/status/926609276919042048
But that’s not quite the entire story. Rolling out kiosks to all of the small-business franchise owners is an expensive proposition, one that was accelerated and made economically viable by progressive policies:
Progressive policies causing creative destruction alert https://t.co/LA2hKtXWQc https://t.co/XDO7PIfioO
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) November 4, 2017
An excerpt:
This presents an interesting conundrum for a Progressive coalition that relies in part upon the very poor. To the degree to which large-scale Progressive reforms like Obamacare and the recently popular $15 minimum wage raises the cost of doing business, the move to automate will only accelerate, hurting most those lower-skilled, generally poorer constituencies, which happen to be politically Progressive. This “creative destruction” will be an unwelcome development to many manual laborers, a betrayal to the Progressive political class.
And we’ll end it with this:
The market always wins. https://t.co/7z6U0LYbSe
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) November 4, 2017
Evergreen.
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Related:
Raging Grannies cheer as Seattle adds high-earner tax to $15 minimum wage win; Next, housing justice https://t.co/vkrPWdtQj6
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 13, 2017
‘Hitting the crack pipe?’ Matt Yglesias achieves peak dumbassery with this take on minimum wage https://t.co/nY7aG224Lf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 3, 2017
‘LMAO OK guys’: Salon can’t handle the truth about Seattle’s minimum wage mess https://t.co/dLpiTkYCuz
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 27, 2017
‘Twisted’: Newsweek makes resignation of Seattle’s Dem mayor all about… Donald Trump Jr.? https://t.co/9xo8tAbAuy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 16, 2017
SERIOUSLY!? Chris Cillizza serves up ‘media bias in 1 tweet’ with takes on Ted Cruz and Seattle mayor https://t.co/0pvm2ut6Q9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 13, 2017
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