Give it a rest already. This change only affects a handful of fanatics and gold-sellers and people accumulating and hoarding gold just to hoard it. You get 30 a day. 210 a week. Then you have to go do something else. Deal with it.
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Another thing, that this is a great example of, is how perspective affects the argument. I make about 4x the minimum wage, so whether it goes up or not doesn’t affect the money I make at all. But I do also have a charity that I run. Me and the rest of the board take no income from it, by choice, so everything the charity makes goes directly to the work that we do. How does raising minimum wage affect us? Well, you know all those people working at McDonalds? They’re not spending money on us, because they don’t have it. But what if they did? What if their job at McDonalds was paying them enough to live and have extra money left over? We could be making significantly more money every year.
When you look at it aimed at the minimum wage worker, raising minimum wage can have some negative outcomes on him.
When you look at it aimed at the businesses who depend on volume to make their money, every minimum wage position is a job that exists that has no benefit for us, while people making 12-13/hr are able to spend money on us, so our charity thrives when minimum wage goes up to enough to live on.
the change is good.
one of the bad things in classic are people like you who instance farm all the time.
doesnt matter if that was possible back then. what matters is what the majority of players did back than and they didnt farm instances to make hilarious amounts of gold.
so this change actually fits the nochange mentality. man i hate those instance grinders.
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Actually minimum wage increasing drastically does effect you absolutely.
Going to assume you worked hard to achieve the salary you are now earning. Nobody just gives that kind of money away.
I also make above min wage.
When minimum wage went up, my salary did not go up to compensate. The hard work I put in and negotiated on my salary was based off of how it compared against min wage and cost of living.
That gap has closed. And it had nothing to do with my work put in. I essentially got a pay decrease.
At my company there are those who only made a few dollars above min. Now they make min.
It matters how fast you invoke these types of increases.
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Go look up the some more news video on Shapiro.
His argument boils down to this:
Hypothesis: requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions creates an increase in financial burden on people paying for insurance.
Supporting evidence: when Seattle raised their minimum wage from $11 to $13, the average overall earnings for minimum wage earners went down.
I’m not commenting in either direction about the hypothesis, or the legitimacy of the supporting evidence. I’m saying that if you’re making a claim about the costs and economics of the US health insurance industry, I want to see supporting data that is actually from the health insurance industry, not McDonalds in the Pacific Northwest.
If you’re (not you specifically tigol, but a general you) saying the 30-cap limit increased profits for boosters which was the claim that started this, I want to see something that supports that beyond saying: I still see bots in Durotar.
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Old Blizz, with strong muscles in almost every category, is long gone. Reverted never cause new Blizz thinks they know everything. Smol brain muscle Blizz doesn’t have what it takes to make good game so just ruins good old one.
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Well ya. I thought no we both would love to see the data impact reaction from the change.
We would also need to see what exactly was the change meant to do specifically, which again we don’t know that either.
General statements like “it was meant to decrease bots” are much too vague.
As for the Ben Shapiro example you cited it’s much too short and non-detailed with regards to what fuels is opinions and how he achieved them it was mostly just a summation of an hour-long debate that he had had 3 years ago where he had an hypothesis of the reaction of raising minimum wage and having read a study done in 2016 2 years after the debate his hypothesis proved to be correct
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So? If they can afford an apartment that doesn’t kill me. They have a small apartment, I have a harley. I have more to show for my work. But it’s not a competition anyway. Who cares if they’re making closer to what I make, long as I can be happy?
Perspective in arguments matters.
So now people that think the 30 instance lockout is a good thing, are Trumpers? Your a joke. Not your posts, you. Personally. Your arguments have been so pathetic, that now you have to try and represent people that have no issue with something as Trump voters? I would expect as much from a retail tard.
You and I have the comfort of being able to swallow the gap decrease. Some people went from making a few bucks over min wage to making min wage.
And the natural reaction to min wage increase is a cost increase on living expenses. You still won’t live off of min wage.
But the point is that you stated that it doesn’t impact you. I just pointed out that it does. You are ok with eating the penalty. I’m not. You can call me greedy or selfish, part of busting tail and working hard was so that I can make drastically more than min wage.
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Nerve struck.
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But you’re looking at it through the perspective of “am I making more money than the McDonalds worker” not “Am I making enough money for all the stuff that I want?” That argument is drilled into your head for that reason. If minimum wage workers are suddenly making what you make, you wouldn’t even notice unless they told you. But there’s a reason they make you focus on comparing your pay.
And it actually has never caused an increase in living expenses. That argument didn’t really come around until we, for some reason, decided that $7.25 was the eternal maximum. Inflation is most commonly caused by production costs, which very little to the point of almost always none of that entire chain ever involves minimum wage workers. Meanwhile, inflation is still happening and we’re not addressing it.
ALWAYS look at what perspective an argument is presented in. People get paid good money to persuade opinions. It’s a science.
I’m looking at this as in I negotiated my contract based off of how much OVER min wage my salary would land.
Now that gap is closed. I worked hard to achieve much more than min mage. I did not and should not see that hard work erased so that people can spend more on a burger at mcdonalds.
Because as my wife’s restaurant did, as min wage went up. She reduced hours and increased the price of the menu.
There are several studies that have had a variety of results but most did see an increase in the cost of goods. Some industries were quicker to spike up then others. As you have to assume that most businesses will simply pass the increase in labor cost on to it’s consumers. And why wouldn’t they?
I don’t disagree that min wage should go up with inflation. Gradually. Slowly. Steadily. It should not spike.
So ya? What did you gain besides screwing me over?
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A local business being able to get get more customers. More customers = more revenue. Back to what I said, pay attention to the perspective of the argument. More people making more money = more people affording to go eat at that restaurant. That higher volume causes a higher revenue, which probably completely offset the increase in pay. But it was an opportunity to raise costs. Your wife’s restaurant was probably making more money than it ever did before it raised its prices, but with a believable scapegoat, it can get away with raising prices.
It’s the same reason that single-payer healthcare, which is a completely capitalist concept, is marketed by politicians and the insurance companies that they’re tied to as being too socialst and evil. Public welfare isn’t socialism. They want you to argue that you shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s healthcare… while paying your insurance premium is doing exactly that. But then they also give you the view of having wait times in other countries. You know why some other countries have some wait times for some procedures and we don’t? Because that many people in this country can’t go to the doctor/hosptial/surgeon. that’s why insurance companies needed a law requiring them to insure people at risk of needing medical care. They’re not there to spend money, they’re there to make money. That’s the point of a business.
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My wife’s restaurant is 4 stars with line ups out the door and on the sidewalk. Basically they were already at their max customer base before and they will stay there after. People were buying thier product with less purchasing power so there is no reason to assume they would stop.
But restaurants operate within a small margin of profit. Which is why you see so many fail within the first three years.
The increase in the menu was a direct result from the increase in labor.
The morality from which you are operating is more wishful thinking than from logic or an understanding as to how various industries operate.
Basically the person making min wage has seen a very miniscule increase in purchasing power if any at all.
But it sure made people feel good reading those headlines.
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It’s amusing how you claim the cap has no impact on gold selling companies and then tell us what impact it has. They must release more and more bots to bypass the cap. I don’t have the data to determine how easy it is for them to do it but that would seem to add to their business costs. More bots, more accounts, for the same about of money. Also more bots leads to more exposure leads to increased risk of detection and bans.
And then there’s the fact that the cap was to reduce, “exploitative and automated game play.” Those against the cap always want to pretend it is all and only about bots.
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Are you sure you are in the majority?
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Congrats?
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