• usernametbd@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I’ve long held the minimum wage should be pegged to cost of living and inflation reporting and not be voted for each raise to it. This way anytime a business tries to jack prices beyond their added costs, it bites them in the ass.

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      2 days ago

      Indexing salaries to inflation has been done in the past in Brazil and it let to hyperinflation in the 80s.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      See i like this idea of pegging the min wage to inflation too, but the government(s all over) has been lying about inflation reports for over 6 years now. So they’ll just fudge the numbers even worse to never go up more than a percent a year.