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Tim Pool (and the rest of the IDW) on Minimum Wage

Tim Pool, in a current and in previous videos, parrots the propaganda of billionaires who aren't in business to make friends and aren't planning to get rich by fairly sharing the profits with those who produce them, their workers and employees on the minimum wage. Whether or not minnimum wage causes temporary job loss and failure of undercapitalized small businesses is ultimately irrelevant, we can't have a Dickensian sweatshop, slave wage, starvation wage, poverty wage economy and society. We've already had that before minimum wage was first implemented in the Great Depression and that's just what it was. MW is one of the features of the New Deal that made "capitalism with a human face" and a great post WW II boom that all Americans could, for the first time, share in, it's one of the few things that stand between us and Upton Sinclair's "jungle".  Implementing a minimum wage law, with such things as widespread unionization of the work...
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Welcome to Intellectual Dark Web Watch

Welcome to Intellectual Dark Web Watch, where I will critique and call out the IDW - and the Left - on their bullshit as, in the current climate, as neither the Left or Right are capable of listening to any diverging or dissenting opinion from their own adherents or opponents and each are steeped in their own fanaticisms, it takes a righty to call out a lefty on their bullshit and vice versa. I am a lefty, by my own definition, but I respect righties and everybody else and adamantly aver that all sincerely held belief must be respected, that the proper way for one's viewpoints to prevail is in open, honest discussion and fair, democratic process. Free speech and democracy were invented so that disagreements could be resolved peacefully. Before those institutions the only way to do so was through war and deadly violence - which seems to be what we are devolving to now with the denigration of free speech and democracy by some ideological tendencies.  I applaud the Intellectual Da...
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