{"id":46662,"date":"2014-08-25T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46662"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:05","slug":"attention-minimum-wage-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46662","title":{"rendered":"Attention, Minimum Wage Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The free market is providing small business with all sorts of alternatives to &#8220;being forced to pay more for something&#8221; &#8211; in this case, minimum marketable skill &#8211; &#8220;than they would normally pay&#8221;.\u00a0 In this case, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/272476041.html\">coffee shop that operates entirely on the honor system<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Would it work in, say, Minneapolis?\u00a0 Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>But could the idea put some people out of work &#8211; people who haven&#8217;t yet developed a skill worth $8-9 an hour &#8211; in places like Watertown?\u00a0 Mazeppa?\u00a0 Albert Lea?<\/p>\n<p>Say &#8220;Thanks, Uncle Ryan Winkler!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free market is providing small business with all sorts of alternatives to &#8220;being forced to pay more for something&#8221; &#8211; in this case, minimum marketable skill &#8211; &#8220;than they would normally pay&#8221;.\u00a0 In this case, a coffee shop that operates entirely on the honor system.\u00a0 Would it work in, say, Minneapolis?\u00a0 Of course not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-46662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46666,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662\/revisions\/46666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}