Another $15 minimum wage question: wouldn't this cause businesses to reduce staff and tip the scales in favor of automation?

You need to look into who spends the most % of their income. It's poor people. So if you give the poorest people in the US more money, they buy more stuff. It's a really simple idea. If you give a millionaire the same % increase he won't spend that same % amount. He (or she) will reinvest it to make more money and more money and more money. And that's fine. But you will never have a strong economy if everyone's goal is to endlessly invest into money itself.

Look at stimulus packages. Basically giving a bunch of poor people $600. What did they do? Bought TVs. Went on mini vacations. Ate dinner out at nice restaurants.

In my area... If a rich person has extra cash,cyber buy another home and start renting it. After so many people do this they can artificially raise housing rates. Poor people who can't afford down payments have to rent. So their bills go up.

Giving rich people more wealth never solves anything. You need to try and balance the wealth out.

As for jobs robots can't do... I can list about 200 jobs robots have a hard time doing just related to carpentry and handyman services. I'm sure you can automate anything. But it's really hard to train robots to have ingenuity and complex problem solving required for a lot of labor.

Can you squirt ketchup on a bun? Sure. What about observing the nots in wood to know where not to hit it with a nail, so t doesn't bend the wrong way? And if it does, to redo it properly? I mean, I'm sure we will train robots to do everything in the future, but there comes a point in current times where a robot would take forever to see where the knot enters and exits the 2x4. Nails the wood down. Realizes the nail is bent and not holding... When a person can do that in 1 second and move on.

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