> there aren’t a ton of good options for workers seeking shorter hours.

Is that true? Most trades can work fewer hours, medical workers like nurses can, hairdressers, plenty of writers are freelance, the entire gig economy.

It seems like big companies don't provide the option, for software at least. I always chocked that up to more bureaucratic processes which add some fixed cost for each employed person.

No you’re right, it definitely depends on the industry and I’m only seeing my slice of the market. I don’t think it’s untrue for a whole lot of jobs though.

Also tariffs on cane sugar.

Forgot about that one, yup.

90% of the people here wouldn't pay $3/mo for a browser. Who do you think is going to raise the money?

> I don’t know if it’s the nature of the products themselves

Isn't this what you were just arguing it was not 10 minutes earlier?

I’m wondering if it’s a little of both. I’m not a nutritionist, but one operating theory I’ve read is that many processed foods are manufactured in such a way that they make you feel less full than a homemade equivalent would.

I don't see what the big deal is - Governments don't change hands or selectively prosecute.

> the stated target of the law but the least likely to be affected by it

The least likely to be negatively affected. This will absolutely be good for them in that it just adds another item to the list of things that prevents new entrants from competing with them.

Why not raise it to $50/hr? While we're printing money without side effects we might as well go big.

It's difficult to believe there are (so many) countries in this world who somehow have this under control, I mean the link between minimum wage and a certain level of living safety.

Interesting. I usually don't complain about prices because I wish more products charged, but I always found the publish pricing to just be too high altogether. I have a blog that's a few simple markdown files and it's easily worth the pain of setting up GitHub pages instead of paying $8/mo. Maybe I'm not the target market though.

Oh god. Didn't they try to do something like this in Mexico City and it resulted in no change? Clever policy is always rife with unintended consequences; prices are good.

This is how China and most Europe does it for their big cities. Identical effectiveness minus the regressivity for the poor.

If the city wants to buy more buses they can always send higher tax bills to their residents

Not true. The rich just get extra car with different plates.

It sounds like they're not yet at the stage where they need to worry about it, though I've heard Charlie mention making an easy to host package registry as one offering.