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  It's because their ideas are unpopular and fare poorly in places like reddit where they don't control the mod team.
  The system hides their comments and throttles their posting frequency because they get mobbed with downvotes for advocating incredibly unpopular (putting it kindly) policies. The people who keep commenting in the face of that are usually trolls and/or psychotic true believers, and that shows through on a lot of the convervatives who actually show up in the comments here.
context: The last minimum wage increase phased in over three years, ending in 2009. Democrats lost the House in the 2010 election and didn’t get a trifecta back until 2021. The GOP won’t increase minimum wage. 
  The Fight for $15 movement started in 2012 and achieved notable success in getting states to increase the minimum wage. 
  Covid caused a big shift in the labor market. Workforce participation has gone down and megacorps like Amazon have a virtually unlimited need for labor, so what they offer has increasingly become a defacto minimum wage. >
  
  ... until they take it away because they can. >
  
  Really curious to see if places will actually drop their wages from $10-$15 down to $7.25 (or what the state minimum wage is) during a sustained recession to cut costs and avoid headcount reduction but then say "look, see we didn't have to lay anyone off!" >
  
  They can and they will, if we ever enter a situation where job supply drops and demand increases. Those were the market conditions when I left college. I took a really hard retail sales job and got paid $9.25 plus commission that amounted to a few bucks per month.
  The kicker was that I was actually expected to wear a 3-piece suit. I couldn’t afford dry cleaning on my wage and I had 3 roommates. 
  I don’t expect any job to piss on their employees to this extent in today’s economic climate, but one day mass unemployment will return… and companies will once again start treating us like we’re lucky to have a job at all.
  Enjoy it while the gettin’ is good. >
  
  The main reason it passed last time was Democrats conceding to tax cuts being passed with it. It was also added to a military spending bill, to make sure no one would vote against it.
  Democrats would have to win a super majority or concede to something huge to get it passed now. >
  
  Add in that people actually making minimum wage in this country is pretty minimal. 1.4% of all workers make minimum wage and the demographics of those earners are like half being sub 18 years old. 2/3 of all hourly wage workers are also tipped workers (see: not making minimum wage). 
  There's just no political pressure to raise a minimum wage because virtually no one is making the true minimum wage. The labor market basically has taken care of that on its own. >
  
  Question: would raising the minimum wage not help those making barely above minimum? For example, in my state minimum went up to $13, as I was making a little above that they adjusted my wage (let’s say for the sake of this, if I was making $13.50 they bumped me up to $14.50), or is this not common place? >
  
  Has anyone else noticed a complete lack of engagement by conservative users on these basic, mainstream subreddits? I know they are on reddit…