General Discussion

Why complain about people trying to determine your intent when you hide it behind snark. You can assign the label “snark” all you want but it would be wrong if it doesn’t apply. I actually quoted two of your statements that can be defensibly labeled snark, not to mention blaming cows or whatever that was. I never said I disagreed with your opinion because you didn’t really lay it out and got defensive when people tried to interpret your aphorisms. I don’t know what nefarious intent you think I attributed other than saying if you are unclear in expressing your opinion, one will be inferred and then you have a chance to clarify.
Your first paragraph here is actual engagement. Yours is a reasonable opinion. If you made it more clear originally, you might have received the sort of engagement you desired. You believe rising unskilled labor costs not only cause inflation related to the products they are involve in making, but to inflation throughout the economy. Obviously, both are true, but to what extent is arguable. I don’t really like the term unskilled labor because often its use is determined by how much we historically have valued the jobs and not the actual skill involved. I live in a high minimum wage state have intimate knowledge of the effects of wage inflation on both the volume and bottom line in fast food operations. For the owner that would like to pay their employees more, it’s a double edged sword in that higher minimum wage allows an owner to compensate their employees better without losing market share, but it also prices them out of some habitual purchases and often results in lower price adjusted revenue. I really don’t know the answer as to how to provide a living wage without its inflationary impact, but I think the positive effect on the most economically vulnerable might be worth inflation adjusted lower earning power for the rest of us.