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Who benefits from a higher minimum wage? (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by federino to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Give a million poor people $100.00 each and it goes straight into the general economy. People are buying shoes, food, pizza.

Give one billionaire $100 million and they'll buy a van Gogh and hide it from the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I like the implication that pizza is a separate category from food.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Pizza is like sex but I don’t cry after pizza.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Pizza transcends all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

If you get the frozen ones, you can use them as a tire. 🙃