{"id":92093,"date":"2015-04-01T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92093"},"modified":"2015-04-01T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:35:33","slug":"the-last-message-out-of-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/04\/the-last-message-out-of-seattle.html","title":{"rendered":"The Last Message Out of Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"color: #141823;\">\u201cThese are just a few of the images we\u2019ve recorded. And you can see, it wasn\u2019t what we thought. There\u2019s been no war here and no seismic event. The environment is stable. It\u2019s the Minimum Wage. The $15\/hr minimum wage we started to phase in today. It was supposed to calm the population, offer more access to resources, and generally give people things they don\u2019t deserve because they haven\u2019t worked hard enough for it. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting about money. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There\u2019s 3 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">[INAUDIBLE SHOUTING]<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">\u201cI have to be quick, but a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite effect to the minimum wage. Given slightly more money, this group, who we\u2019re calling the Takers, decided that rich, hardworking people\u2019s money belonged all to them. They started looting and beating up the wealthy almost immediately. They\u2019ve killed most of us\u2026. but we meant it for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">HT:\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink decorated-link\" style=\"color: #3b5998;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/J.mac.1337\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=1089542924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joseph McIntosh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese are just a few of the images we\u2019ve recorded. And you can see, it wasn\u2019t what we thought. There\u2019s been no war here and no seismic event. The environment is stable. It\u2019s the Minimum Wage. The $15\/hr minimum wage we started to phase in today. 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