Because a heart is just a lump of selves everything you are is within your consciousness , which and unborn baby does not have <| sep |> This is such a bullshit argument that people make . The narrative that companies will cut hours and jobs rarrr ! is nonsense . No industry runs with a labor pool higher than it needs . Any industry running at such low capacity that its current workers need to work continuous overtime isn ' t going to be able to operate with fewer employees . And the bonus argument that they ' ll make everyone work parttime is hysteria . The law mandates a pay increase only if you work overtime , not if you just work fulltime . If anything it ' ll make jobs keep fulltime salaried workers at fulltime rather than overtime which is a good thing . No one making salary wants to work mandatory overtime which some people are expected to do . I work in interior design where many people make around $ 40 , 000 a year and end up working mandatory overtime . Why ? Because the job is based on deadlines and firms tend to hire as few people as possible . It is a frequent headache in the design and architecture community . Firms often have small teams working on an insane amount of projects . They could add people to the teams , but hey ! our salaried workers can just work overtime to keep cost down . Most of my peers were waiting on this law to go into effect because one of two things would happen . A they would have gotten raises , yey . Or , B they wouldn ' t have to work mandatory overtime , yey . There was literally no downside to the mandate . Everyone was slated to get a raise come December and now they ' re all getting a big middle finger from the party claiming to be pro worker . Watching the US complain about low paying jobs that over work them while simultaneously arguing that pay rasehour cap mandates are a bad thing is like getting a lobotomy . I ' m so sick of this country ' s self imposed problems .