Work – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:59:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Work – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 The Real Minimum Wage Is Always Zero https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-real-minimum-wage-is-always-zero/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-real-minimum-wage-is-always-zero/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:59:46 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=199972 (Schiff)—The real minimum wage is always zero. Restaurant workers in California are about to find that out the hard way.

Minimum wage laws are politically popular. According to the narrative, benevolent politicians raise the minimum to force greedy businesses to pay their workers a decent wage. It sounds great, doesn’t it? It seems like a victory for the little guy.

The problem is you can’t suspend economic laws by government edict.

One of the biggest enduring economic myths is the notion that the minimum wage laws only help workers and have no real negative effects. The fallacy inherent in this line of thinking becomes immediately clear if we simply propose a $ 1,000-per-hour minimum wage. After all, if $20 is good, $1,000 would be fantastic, right?

Of course, nobody would pay a worker $1,000 per hour to perform a low-skill task. You’d never get any kind of return on that investment, and it’s obviously unaffordable. A $15 per hour minimum is just slightly less unaffordable. It’s only a matter of scale.

The smaller scale of a hike to $15 makes the effects much less obvious – sometimes completely invisible. But the same fundamental economic reasons a $1,000 per hour minimum wage would never work make a $15 minimum just as economically unviable.

Nevertheless, as long as we have politicians, they will pander to “workers” and pass these economically damaging laws. And as long as there are minimum wage laws on the books, some low-productivity workers will go without jobs.

A wage is nothing more than the price of labor. And labor is subject to the laws of supply and demand. When you raise the price of something, demand falls. That means raising the price to hire somebody will ultimately mean fewer people get hired.

It’s critical to understand that governments can force employers to pay you minimum wage. But they can’t force a company to hire you.

CALIFORNIA: A REAL WORLD EXAMPLE

California workers are going to learn this economic lesson the hard way.

A $20 per hour minimum wage for restaurant workers in California will go into effect in April. To cope with the increased cost of labor, two Pizza Hut operators plan to eliminate delivery service. That means some 1,200 delivery drivers will go from making their current wage to earning zero.

“PacPizza, LLC, operating as Pizza Hut, has made a business decision to eliminate first-party delivery services and, as a result, the elimination of all delivery driver positions,” the company said in a statement.

Southern California Pizza Co. also gave notice that it will discontinue delivery service.

Restaurant industry analyst Mark Kalinowski told Business Insider that he expects “more harm to come” from the law as fast food chains “take action in an attempt to blunt the impact of higher labor costs.”

Some of that pain will fall on customers. Pizza lovers will now have to pick up their orders or depend on third-party delivery services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats. Meanwhile, McDonald’s and Chipotle have already indicated that they will raise menu prices.

Gov. Gavin Newsome signed the FAST Act into law in 2022. The original plan would have raised the fast food industry minimum wage to $23 per hour. In a compromise, a law passed last year set the wage at $20. The wage applies to California-based fast-food chains with 60 or more locations nationwide.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH A MINIMUM WAGE?

Nick Giambruno did a good job of explaining the problem with minimum wages in an article published by the International Man. He points out that minimum wage laws are simply price controls.

In this case, a control on the price of labor. And price controls always create destructive distortions in the market. Here, that means unnecessary unemployment and artificially high prices passed on to consumers. Even the Congressional Budget Office admits that 500,000 jobs would be lost if the US government raised the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10.”

Giambruno illustrates this point by making a comparison that’s easy to wrap your head around. Imagine if the government set the minimum price for an aluminum can at $5. In that scenario, Coca-Cola would have to charge over $5 for a can of Coke. Would you shell out more than five bucks for a can of Coke?

Me neither.

In this scenario, we’d end up with a glut of Coke cans sitting on store shelves.

In this scenario, the problem isn’t that people don’t want Coke. They do. The problem is the artificially high price of aluminum cans… which leads to the artificially high price of Coke… that just sits on shelves, gathering dust, until eventually, Coca-Cola drastically cuts back production because of lack of demand.”

In all likelihood, Coca-Cola would just switch to exclusively using glass or plastic containers. The $5 minimum can price that was supposed to help the can companies would actually hurt them over the long term.

Now, just substitute aluminum cans for labor and you have the same scenario.

A similar dynamic plays out when the government mandates the price of labor. But instead of Coke cans, potential employees sit on the shelves while employers eliminate jobs they otherwise wouldn’t, and are forced to pass on higher prices to consumers when they otherwise wouldn’t. The plain truth is, not every job generates $15 an hour worth of output. And some workers would much rather accept jobs that pay less than $15 than have no job at all.”

Minimum wage advocates seek to solve a legitimate problem facing American workers: their dollars buy less and less every year. But simply mandating employers fork over more dollars is a little like putting a band-aid on an amputation. It doesn’t do anything to address the underlying problem. We don’t have a wage problem. We have a money problem.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-real-minimum-wage-is-always-zero/feed/ 3 199972 Eight Critical Predictions That Will Reshape the Rest of 2022 and All of 2023: Food, Finance, War, Layoffs, Pandemic Bioweapons and More https://americanconservativemovement.com/eight-critical-predictions-that-will-reshape-the-rest-of-2022-and-all-of-2023-food-finance-war-layoffs-pandemic-bioweapons-and-more/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/eight-critical-predictions-that-will-reshape-the-rest-of-2022-and-all-of-2023-food-finance-war-layoffs-pandemic-bioweapons-and-more/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:58:51 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=183462 While 2022 isn’t yet over — and there’s still a risk of a false flag event before Election Day — from what we already know about what’s coming, 2023 is going to be a far worse year on several fronts. First, food scarcity is going to get a whole lot worse across the globe. Energy scarcity will reach its peak in early 2023 as the Northern Hemisphere endures a freezing winter. A wave of layoffs are coming for Americans in early 2023, and both inflation and unemployment are going to significantly worsen.

All those things are set in stone and cannot be changed. Yet there are other significant risk factors that may or may not emerge, depending on world events. Those include:

  • World war with Russia
  • False flag terrorism in the continental United States
  • Cyber attack grid down scenarios
  • Election rigging and resulting civil unrest

Right now, we are mere weeks away from the mid-term elections, and the Biden regime is desperate to spark a war, unleash a pandemic, take down the power grid or do something drastic that will halt the election and keep his regime in power indefinitely. But there exist powerful, positive forces inside the system that are thwarting some of these efforts — so we’re told — and it’s not clear whether the bad guys will be able to successfully pull anything off before Nov. 8th. This is one area where government incompetence is actually a good thing.

Or perhaps they are relying on continued vote rigging to try to nullify the will of the people, but we suspect that this time around, it’s going to be a lot harder to cheat than it was in 2020.

Thus, Democrats are facing a political catastrophe that could lead to the end of their reign of tyranny across America. No doubt they will pull out all the stops to prevent this from taking place, even if it means launching nuclear weapons in Ukraine (to be blamed on Russia) and declaring a state of wartime martial law in America.

Pray for universal safety over the next three weeks, and pray that Democrats don’t start World War III just to try to rig an election.

Boston University is engaged in illegal gain-of-function research and has gone “rogue”

Meanwhile, if you’re wondering where the next pandemic might come from, look no further than Boston University, which developed a new chimeric covid strain using gain-of-function research (which is illegal in the United States), achieving an 80% mortality rate in mice.

The BSL-3 laboratory that achieved this is situated in a high-population density area, meaning that if this gets out, it will immediately spread across the Boston population and the entire East Coast.

Remarkably, the scientists who carried out these crimes bragged about it, adding their names to a published paper that describes, in meticulous detail, how they carried out these crimes against humanity and violated US law (and NIAID regulations).

You can read the original research paper (which is not yet peer-reviewed) at this link (PDF): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full.pdf

The title, abstract and other details about the research paper are found here: 
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134

As the UK Daily Mail has covered in a follow-up article, a director of NIAID openly admits she wasn’t aware this gain-of-function research was taking place. This means Boston University scientists circumvented approval requirements, since they also state in their own paper that funding for their project came from NIH / NIAID. From the UK Daily Mail:

  • Dr Emily Erbelding, a director at NIAID, said she was unaware of specific details of the research
  • She claims to have only found out the experiments may have involved enhancing pathogens on Monday
  • Grants totaling $1.1million from NIAID are listed as having helped fund the research at Boston University

Here’s the section in the PDF document that openly credits the NIAID and NIH for funding, which means Boston University violated US law and has been running a criminal science bioweapons operation… in other words, Boston University has “gone rogue” and all its scientists and administrators need to be immediately arrested and prosecuted.

Get the full story on all this (and much more) in today’s hard-hitting Situation Update podcast:

  • Another pathogen release is coming in 2022, with emergency lockdowns
  • Huge layoffs will happen in 2023 across the U.S. tech sector
  • US semiconductor companies getting hit hard by Biden’s economic order targeting China
  • Barge river traffic problem in the USA won’t be solved in 2023
  • There isn’t enough rail capacity to take over from the barges
  • FOOD WILL ROT on the farms across the USA, with no means of transportation
  • GPS signals jammed / blinded in Texas – is it China’s test run?
  • Russia takes out NATO / Ukraine satellite comms station, blinding Ukraine
  • NIAID director admits Boston University bioweapons research was NOT authorized
  • Gain-of-Function bioweapon may be “accidentally” released in Boston
  • EcoHealth Alliance bragged about huge grant funding to work with Boston University
  • More signs point to imminent attack by Russia
  • 2023 food scarcity will get FAR worse than what anyone saw in 2022
  • Interview with Pastor Todd Coconato
  • Brighteon: Brighteon.com/87f57936-1a19-4a61-a807-482121ae1f2e
  • Bitchute: Bitchute.com/video/IKm2UBs4Vh7n/
  • Rumble: Rumble.com/v1oqqka-situation-update-oct-19-2022-8-critical-predictions-for-today-through-2023.html
  • Banned.Video: Banned.video/watch?id=635016819d7d49141b19677b

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