Negative Fallout From Increased Wage Laws

[Smasharoo]

I cry a silent bloody tear of rage for all the poor disenfranchised chile farmers of New Mexico. I imagine the national GDP will collapse if they're forced to increase wages for the first time in a decade. Oh, alas, alas!

[TomCollins]

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I cry a silent bloody tear of rage for all the poor disenfranchised chile farmers of New Mexico. I imagine the national GDP will collapse if they're forced to increase wages for the first time in a decade. Oh, alas, alas!

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At first they came for the Jews...

[Smasharoo]

At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

[TomCollins]

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At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

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Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

[bisonbison]

Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

Tom, it'd help if you guys would lay off the holocaust references. They do not help your case.

[TomCollins]

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Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

Tom, it'd help if you guys would lay off the holocaust references. They do not help your case.

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It would help if people understood references too. His argument consisted mostly of "so what if something bad is happening to them, its not happening to me. Pretty much exactly what the poem says. Unfortunately, its about the Halocaust, which causes people to act irrationally thinking I was comparing the horror of mass genocide to a minimum wage increase.

If your argument is there are not problems with minimum wage increases, say it, but Smasharoo is a 1st class troll.

Are there any other analogies that are reserved from being used?
Anything related to Nazism, the Halocaust seem to be covered so far.

[Smasharoo]

It would help if people understood references too.

Please don't confuse laughing out lout at the preposterousness of something for not understanding the reference. I'm fairly certain that when Niemoller wrote it, it wasn't with the intent that it be trivialized and used as wild hyperbole in a discussion about wages.


His argument consisted mostly of "so what if something bad is happening to them, its not happening to me.


No, my argument was that New Mexico chile farmers complaining about having to pay higher wages has virtually nothing at all to do with raising the Federal Minimum Wage.


Pretty much exactly what the poem says. Unfortunately, its about the Halocaust, which causes people to act irrationally thinking I was comparing the horror of mass genocide to a minimum wage increase.


I think, honestly, it's more that it just doesn't apply *at all* in even the widest interpretation thats bothersome. You know, that you're implying that there *really is* a slippery slope from chile farmers to...I don't know...totalitarian socialism? Honestly, what is the fear exactly?


If your argument is there are not problems with minimum wage increases, say it, but Smasharoo is a 1st class troll.


I have no idea when Troll came to be defined as "Someone more glib than me whose arguments I can't refute at all" but, ok. I guess there's a lot to be said for covering your ears and yelling "lalalalalala" when someone says something you'd rather not hear. I wouldn't know, really, but it seems very popular.


Are there any other analogies that are reserved from being used?
Anything related to Nazism, the Halocaust seem to be covered so far.


How about those that don't apply at all to the subject at hand? That'd be a good start.

When I was one and twenty, a wise man said to me...

[HeavilyArmed]

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At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

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Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

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Ignore Baby.

[TomCollins]

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At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

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Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

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Ignore Baby.

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Sometimes I am a bit slow to realize who I am dealing with. For some reason I thought Skidoo was the only troll. It seems to be ok, iron corrected the problem.

[jesusarenque]

TomCollins was owned by Smasharoo. That is all.