The future of the $50 minimum wage
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@Horace said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
@jon-nyc said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
I think in the real world the numbers are small and even then your typical social interaction wouldn’t reveal enough to trigger any negative reaction.
The checkout line or any customer/vendor interaction is as small as one wants to make it. I'm more talking about situations a step up from that. Dinners or parties or walking groups or workplace or family interactions. I guess you can claim that such interactions aren't precarious as they edge into politics or social issues, I mean you can write that if you want.
Didn't anybody ever tell you not to talk about religion and politics at parties?
I've had business meals where people started going off about politics. One guy I was meeting just before the 2016 election said Hillary was a communist, and I'm ashamed to say I LOL'd. I was definitely in the minority at that particular meeting as my boss is a Trump sympathiser, however he clearly saw the funny side. The other guy, not so much, but he'd already made me sit through grace before dinner, so I figured enough was enough.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
Didn't anybody ever tell you not to talk about religion and politics at parties?
Exactly. 555
If I understand that back and froth between @Horace and @jon-nyc , I think I agree with Jon a bit more.
I meet quite a few people I have not met before, and it is pretty easy to have a good conversation with them without moving into topics that would be a controversy.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
@Horace said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
@jon-nyc said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
I think in the real world the numbers are small and even then your typical social interaction wouldn’t reveal enough to trigger any negative reaction.
The checkout line or any customer/vendor interaction is as small as one wants to make it. I'm more talking about situations a step up from that. Dinners or parties or walking groups or workplace or family interactions. I guess you can claim that such interactions aren't precarious as they edge into politics or social issues, I mean you can write that if you want.
Didn't anybody ever tell you not to talk about religion and politics at parties?
I've had business meals where people started going off about politics. One guy I was meeting just before the 2016 election said Hillary was a communist, and I'm ashamed to say I LOL'd. I was definitely in the minority at that particular meeting as my boss is a Trump sympathiser, however he clearly saw the funny side. The other guy, not so much, but he'd already made me sit through grace before dinner, so I figured enough was enough.
It's not me that ever brings it up.
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@taiwan_girl said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
If I understand that back and froth between @Horace and @jon-nyc ,
The ol' "back and froth" between me and jon-nyc. That's what she said.
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@Horace said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
It's not me that ever brings it up.
Yeah, I know there are plenty of knobheads out there. I generally find that self-deprecating jokes are a good way to diffuse the tension.
And for any Trump supporters out there, self-deprecating is a fancy way of saying laughing at yourself.
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@Horace said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
Dinners or parties or walking groups or workplace or family interactions.
Thats not what came to mind when I read ‘social interactions with random people’, especially in a thread about cashiers disappearing.
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@jon-nyc said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
@Horace said in The future of the $50 minimum wage:
Dinners or parties or walking groups or workplace or family interactions.
Thats not what came to mind when I read ‘social interactions with random people’, especially in a thread about cashiers disappearing.
I agree that one can navigate waiters at restaurants without getting into a heated debate about global warming.
