{"id":64247,"date":"2017-08-24T05:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64247"},"modified":"2017-08-23T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:34:56","slug":"unintended-consequences-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64247","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences, Again And Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The starting pay for order takers at Minnesota fast food joints will increase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2017\/08\/17\/minnesota-announces-2018-minimum-wage\/\">to nearly $10 per hour next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In completely unrelated news, fast food joints are re<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-wendys-kiosk-20170227-story.html\">placing order takers with touch screens<\/a>.\u00a0 Customers like them better.\u00a0 And they\u2019re cheaper long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Proof that Liberals were right all along &#8211; raising the minimum wage does not loweremployment rates.\u00a0\u00a0 For the people who make touch screens.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not the lesson that&#8217;ll be broadcast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The starting pay for order takers at Minnesota fast food joints will increase to nearly $10 per hour next year. In completely unrelated news, fast food joints are replacing order takers with touch screens.\u00a0 Customers like them better.\u00a0 And they\u2019re cheaper long-term. Proof that Liberals were right all along [&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":[283],"class_list":["post-64247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","tag-minimum-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64247","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=64247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64248,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64247\/revisions\/64248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}