Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
Question. What do you think happens to the economy when people who aren't making minimum wage (the vast majority of the working population) get performance-based/cost of living raises?
Then they are creating more value to the said company, so they are worth more i.e. higher pay. You don't set the bar high to begin with. You should start at the minimum wage, which is the minimum to live on. Like I have stated nobody lives in their means. Do I know exactly what the bottom bar should be set at? No. I do not believe that it is $9.

Also I have worked at places where if your hourly pay gets too high, guess what the company does? They let you go because you are not worth the amount of pay. They bring in new people (which does incur training costs) that are cheaper.