Originally Posted by Relentless

Whether you pay them one dollar or one thousand dollars per hour those jobs won't exist in ten years. We do not need 25% of the population now. In ten years we won't need 40% of the population. We don't have wars of attrition or plague anymore. So the question becomes what do we do wth 4 out of every ten adults when their skills aren't needed no matter how hard they we willing to work?

What's coming is some form of stay-at-home pay. Subsistence living all expenses paid. Until population controls are put in place it will only get worse. The problem will be global not national. The size of min wage will have zero impact on the problem. The real reason for the bump is to get votes in 2016 and to condition the public for 40% of the population going on furlough eventually.