{"id":62204,"date":"2017-02-21T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62204"},"modified":"2017-02-21T07:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:33:03","slug":"to-the-minneapolis-and-saint-paul-city-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62204","title":{"rendered":"To The Minneapolis And Saint Paul City Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Our Bobbleheaded Overlords
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
\nRe: \u00a0“Fight For Fifteen!”<\/p>\n

All,<\/p>\n

From a friend of this blog, here’s where the $15\/hour minimum wage leads, inevitably and inexorably:<\/p>\n

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It’s at Seattle\/Tacoma International Airport\u00a0– an early adopter of the #FightFor15 – in case you were wondering. Photo courtesy Brian Skon.<\/p><\/div>\n

Let me just take a moment to say, I don’t think the “#FightFor15” has anything to do with raising worker wages, or taking any sort of care of the little guy. \u00a0If it were, you’d be fighting for the only sustainable minimum wage there is – widespread prosperity<\/p>\n

No. \u00a0This is about virtue-signaling to your base (and I don’t mean minimum wage earners) and showing small business who’s boss.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Our Bobbleheaded Overlords From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant Re: \u00a0“Fight For Fifteen!” All, From a friend of this blog, here’s where the $15\/hour minimum wage leads, inevitably and inexorably: Let me just take a moment to say, I don’t think the “#FightFor15” has anything to do with raising worker wages, or taking any sort […]<\/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":[249],"class_list":["post-62204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62204","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=62204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62226,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62204\/revisions\/62226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}