Mumbling_Mute

Why do projects like this post updates and information?

Surely by now everyone knows they'll be hit by a cease and desist. I suppose it makes good portfolio work?

I don't disagree with any of this but I've always struggled with reconciling how this would work with some low margin industries. As someone with a hospitality background and experience on both sides of the employer/employee divide, every time I hear people talk about 'outlawing insecure employment' and 'lift the minimum wage' I can only shiver a little on behalf of smaller businesses in my former industry because very often, the money just isn't there and passing it onto the consumer is a risky proposition.

Instead what happens is under the table arrangements that suit both parties and deal in cash. And while in the short term those benefit both parties, they seem undesirable in the long run from a social standpoint.

You're the representative for Melbourne, an area renowned for its restaurant scene. Having worked in that scene, I can tell you first hand that most, if not all restaurants employ people cash in hand because $25 an hour + penalty rates can be nearly impossible to sustain unless your business is absolutely killing it. And now, given Covid's impact on the industry, it's hard to see the Melbourne restaurant scene as sustainable anyway in the near to medium term.

So I guess my question is:

How do you protect an industry with low margins while at the same time being an advocate for higher minimum wage and more secure employment?

Both are true

'Every time' isn't the issue. It's when the cumulative impact of gun violence reaches a scale that is unseen in any other first world country that a conversation about gun control is both sensible and needed.

Out of curiosity, have people's rights actually been eroded in any meaningful way as a result of events like Sandy Hook? Or is the 'eroded every time' more hyperbolic, and not representative of the reality of the American response to mass shootings?

I ask as a non-American who stopped following the debate a long time ago.