Pittsburgh Ice Cream Shop Couldn't Find Staff, Then Doubled Wage to $15, Flooded w 1K Applicants

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2. The virtuous / vicious cycles need to be promoted throughout local economies...

Power to the people comes from the wallet and where dollars are spent and then how they are circulated. Dollars circulated as wages and spending power, invigorate a local economy. Dollars hoarded and extracted as profits do nothing for the local economies and only enrich a very few.

If people make it unprofitable for an owner to cheat the employees to enhance their own bottom line (vicious cycle) and simultaneously support the owners who are paying a living wage and supporting the local economy in the process (virtuous cycle) then we could see a lot of changes to the social contract.

In the end, as long as the rewards are there to be taken, unscrupulous businessmen will 100% take the money and run...but if their short and long term prospects dim because of a lack of support, they will be out of business.