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Rising minimum wages and labor demand hurt labor-intensive industries far more than capital-intensive ones.
Retail, restaurants, and services that require a lot of labor relative to revenue are hit directly and quickly when wage costs rise — labor cost makes up a large share of their operating expenses.
Tech or industrial companies with high automation and relatively few employees per revenue dollar are less sensitive to rising wage costs — their relative advantage actually grows when labor is more expensive.
Companies with real pricing power can pass some of the higher labor cost onto customers via price increases — that ability, not just the wage cost level itself, determines how much profitability actually gets hurt.
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