I love it when a newspaper’s opinion section contains contradicting articles.

In my local paper today there was an article about how minimum wage should not be raised because the point of a minimum wage job is not to provide for the employee, but give them skills and training for higher end jobs later in life. This article was written by the CEO of a neighboring town’s chamber of commerce.

An article on the other page, written by an actual journalist, looked at the general opinion of CEOs of major companies and economists, and how they generally agree that the minimum wage in America should be raised. This is in response to a dying middle class caused by the growing wage gap between the rich and the poor, and how that is choking the economy and American capitalism as a whole. The article in question referenced quotes by the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffet, and several others while calling lobbyists at the US chamber of commerce one of the main causes of the defunct economy.

This amuses me.