Comment Re:May spur automation (Score 1) 940
Okay, so why does it remove entry-level jobs for minorities but apparently not for white teenagers?
Because white kids have a lot more opportunities. Many of them don't want a job, because they are too busy studying for college. Or they work part-time at their daddy's business. Black and Hispanic kids are at the bottom, so when that last rung is taken away, they get hurt the most.
For a clear illustration of what happens when you push "white" solutions onto communities where they don't apply, look what happened in Puerto Rico. The economy was doing well, and it was a hub for low end manufacturing, mostly paying about $3 an hour. Then the courts ruled that federal minimum wage laws had to apply to PR. So overnight the wages went up to $7.25, and the jobs disappeared. So instead of making $3 an hour, the workers were making $0 an hour, debts piled up as people stopped paying taxes, and now PR is bankrupt, and seeking a federal bailout.
What happened to PR will likely not happen in California, because the change will happen more slowly, and California has a far more diverse economy. But the same principles apply, and the worst effects will be on the people that can least afford it.
This is complete bullshit. I'm white, came from lower middle class, and my "daddy" didn't have any business for me to work at. I worked at McDonald's at 17 to save for my first car and there were more minorities who could barely speak comprehensible English working than there were middle class white kids with all of these "opportunities". Also I had to take out STUDENT LOANS to pay for my college. If you're a minority odds are it was all paid for you. I HAD TO GET GOOD GRADES to get into my school. Thanks to affirmative action I had way more competition with far LESS COMPETENT people. People who would rather learn how to speak improperly in order to stay "real" than to actually try for success. How is that MY fault? I'm not their fucking parents. Minorities are the ones who have the upper hand in this society. The problem is that most of them chose the route of ignorance instead of knowledge and success. That's a parental problem. My parents were not rich, they did not get me any jobs, they did not buy my first car at 17, they did not buy my way into college, they did not pay for my college tuition, they did not cosign on ANY loan I have ever taken out, they did not pay the down payment on my first house at 26, and they did not cosign on my mortgage. I did all of this all on my own and it would have been easier if I were a minority, less competent, and if I would have not been as responsible. For example I didn't qualify for an $8000 subsidy on my down payment for my first home because I had "saved too much". That's how Obama rewards responsibility. Quit bitching about minorities not having the same opportunities, they're just as available, and they are even given a boost over whites. We are well past our grandparent's generation where that wasn't the case so quit your bitching, everyone is tired of it. The age of PC for obnoxious "minorities" is finally fucking over.
