McDonald's announced they're replacing cashiers with kiosks in California just after the $20 minimum wage kicked in. Shocking to absolutely no one who understands basic economics. When you artificially price labor above its market value, employers find substitutes. Machines, automation, or they simply eliminate positions entirely.
The teenagers who desperately need that first job experience? Gone. The single mother trying to re-enter the workforce after years away? Priced out by someone with more skills. You've just created a legal barrier that prevents the least skilled workers from competing on the one thing they had going for them: willingness to work for less while they build experience.
Politicians pat themselves on the back for "helping workers" while unemployment among young minorities hits double digits. The workers who keep their jobs benefit (temporarily), but the invisible victims, those who never get hired in the first place, don't make headlines. Economics doesn't care about your good intentions.
À tous les pickpockets de Paris
De cette semaine à la semaine prochaine, des rikishi japonais visiteront la France.
Merci de ne pas tenter de leur voler leur portefeuille.
Un rikishi peut courir 50 mètres en 6 à 8 secondes, et sa charge peut développer une force équivalente à près de deux tonnes.
Votre carrière de pickpocket pourrait prendre fin plus rapidement que prévu.
Cordialement,
P.S.
Les pickpockets les plus expérimentés pourraient trouver les rikishi japonais particulièrement vulnérables.
Cependant, n'oubliez pas que cette apparente vulnérabilité est simplement le reflet de la confiance que leur confèrent leurs capacités physiques hors du commun.
Veuillez en tenir compte avant toute initiative regrettable.
#sumo
A guy sat at his laptop ready to permanently delete his 15-year-old Gmail account.
He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.
He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."
His coworker, a former email deliverability engineer, looked over his shoulder.
"Before you nuke 15 years of contacts and data, let me show you something. Your email isn't broken. It's weaponized. There are 22 ways you've been leaving the door wide open. Google won't tell you this because the data collection feeds their entire ad engine. Give me 14 minutes."
Here's what she showed him: