Tom Nichols

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2,999 appearances 26 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 21 Aug

Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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PBD Podcast · DSA Wins in Florida, Trump Approval Falls to 33%, & NY ISIS Attack Thwarted | PBD #847 · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

If you just wanna understand how minimum wage works and how math works, take the minimum wage, twenty five dollars an hour, times it by two, that means you're making fifty thousand dollars a year. voice-verified

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So if you wanna start everybody out at fifty thousand, we're gonna have a major problem. voice-verified

I know you've told the story you worked at Hagendah's for four bucks an hour. voice-verified

I worked for ten bucks an hour at one point. voice-verified

At some point we're gonna have to realize if you start everyone at fifty voice-verified

That means that everyone is gonna be making eighty, a hundred. voice-verified

So you might be saying, that's great, we're all making more money. voice-verified

That means everything's gonna cost more. voice-verified

So right now, this is federal minimum wage, just to be clear, right? voice-verified

Right now it's state minimum wage. voice-verified

I think the highest states are obviously the big blue states: California, New York, Hawaii, it's $17 an hour. voice-verified

But then you have states like I think Florida is maybe 12. voice-verified

You have certain states, lower economic states, Mississippi, Alabama, where it's closer to the federal minimum, which is seven dollars an hour. voice-verified

If you make a federal minimum wage of $25 an hour, that means voice-verified

Every single state is going to be basically firing employees left and right because they can't keep up. voice-verified

So here's the biggest challenge I have. voice-verified

And a time when we're basically seeing that AI is going to take over and put unemployment, which is at 4%, which is pretty damn good right now, historically pretty damn low. voice-verified

All of a sudden, AI is going to put people out of the workforce. voice-verified

Now businesses can't. voice-verified

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