The Off Topic Topic

[Tonitrus]

I would be fine with a 20-something female coming up to me and touching my hair. 

[garbon]

I'd be fine cutting said hypothetical 20-something.

[Josquius]

Probably just more hair.

I'm sure there has to be more than that. Nectarines maybe.

[Ed Anger]

Raciss

[Ideologue]

I wish I had hair for strangers to sexually batter.

[mongers]

Have I mentioned it, no, well just in case I haven't, I'd like to pledge my undying love for Suzanne Vega.    

[Brazen]

Anyone on Ello? Anyone want to be? I have: codes.

[Syt]

[Liep]

Jutland (and the Danish minority in North Germany) divided by dialect, each distinctive and utterly unintelligible.

[Josquius]

A weird thought I just had- could the minimum wage be tied into corporate profits

Of course the corps would just find ways to cheat

[Ideologue]

By nationalizing them?

[Ed Anger]

Nationalize Ide's candy

[Admiral Yi]

A weird thought I just had- could the minimum wage be tied into corporate profits

Of course the corps would just find ways to cheat

Sure.  You could tie it to the phase of the moon, global mean temperature, just about anything.

[Tonitrus]

A weird thought I just had- could the minimum wage be tied into corporate profits

Of course the corps would just find ways to cheat

Sure.  You could tie it to the phase of the moon, global mean temperature, just about anything.

While Yi's analogies are, of course, silly and flippant...the idea of tying wages to profits has a huge flaw when the company loses money.  As that logic would mean pay cuts, and potentially negative salaries if things get really bad. 

[Tamas]

A weird thought I just had- could the minimum wage be tied into corporate profits

Of course the corps would just find ways to cheat

What of course you should understand is that raising the minimum wage accross the board is hardly a solution to anything. It raises the costs of all business creating the products poor people buy (unless they move production out of the country, again hardly a benefit), plus raises the supply of money which again results in price raises.