What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
All the top-level comments are making excuses for inconvenient facts. I&#x27;m guessing a lot of folks on Hacker News believe themselves to be objective analysts and yet are blind to how their bias against the minimum wage is causing them to look foolish in ignoring any new information that might possibly conflict with their world view.<p>The ONLY proper response if you&#x27;re a critic of this study (if not with the methodology, which nobody here has found ANY problems with) is to say, &quot;well there&#x27;s a wide variety of findings on minimum wage.&quot; Instead, you have people intentionally misreading the study, making ideological claims about the &quot;value&quot; of the work minimum wage workers do, or a conspiratorial claim they reversed because of &quot;pressure&quot; without any evidence whatsoever.<p>It&#x27;s quite sad to see people so willing to reject inconvenient facts.