I don't want higher minimum wage. I want people to stop paying for things that have price increases, so that benefits of technology are given to the masses instead of the corps (in the form of lower prices, not higher profits).
It'd be interesting if people were better informed, interested, and had the time necessary to make the best choices for their self-interest. We're far from that ideal in my opinion, so extremely far that it's not a useful model. People do not generally know their exact pricepoints for various goods and services. Like a can of beans - I might compare it to other brands on the shelves, but if all the cans started at $2 instead of a bit under ~70c, that would just be my reality. I'd end up with a lot less money on a weekly basis and I'd have no idea why, or what to do about it.
Fortunately food prices are kept artificially low by my government, because food riots are an existential threat to even the most heavily policed governments. Unfortunately we don't extend that same concept to other necessities like housing and healthcare. In my opinion this is just as unsustainable in the long term. It's actually kinda like you're saying - people are realizing they're overpaying, and they're seeking to change that. But the only way to stop overpaying for a necessity is for the government to step in. You can't boycott it (without going homeless or uncovered), you can't meaningfully shop around (the health care "marketplace" is collusive as hell).
I guess you can just lay down and die... Ugh, I need to get coverage.
But to bring this back on point: If the government's unwilling to lower (eventually
eliminate) the price of subsistence living, then I guess guaranteeing a living wage (for those able to work...) is a practical compromise for now. or $15 an hour I guess
Consider there are two solutions to the problem of "if AI takes over the world, there will be no jobs": the first is to just make up money and give it to people; the second is to let prices drop.
No, I don't mean that I favor deflation - I favor profits being realized in the form of lower prices instead of larger bank account balances.
I guess this makes sense, except that prices have to be dropped through widespread action. It will not just happen naturally, even when it would be in the best interests of consumers, because consumers are underinformed and
deliberately misinformed marketed to; both directly, and indirectly through culture.
Now - if we got that AI to, hm, "plan" out an economy that properly allocated the astounding surplus of resources we constantly discard? Everything would be okay
Also yeah puberty blockers are commonly used on cis children and are essentially harmless and reversible. Certainly harmless in comparison to the very real harm caused by denying them. Hormones are also available in abundance, but only to cis men diagnosed with low-T or cis women with similar hormonal imbalances. Trans people face extraordinary extra requirements to get the same substances as cis people.
(And because I sometimes get flak for this elsewhere - "cis" is not an insult, it is a useful adjective equal to and opposite "trans". Most of my best friends are cis. I disavow hatred of cis people and anything else ever posted on tumblr or twitter)