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Enough to keep up with productivity and inflation.
Productive burger flippers = minimum wage.
Enough to keep up with productivity and inflation.
Majority are 20 and over Tables 1 - 10; Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2009
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:roll: Yea because its about socialism. I just think they should get paid a $15 wage because it keeps up with productivity and inflation, and its also because ifs liveable, and allows more purchasing power.
College is there for those that work for it. Yes, it means WORK, ya know that old fashioned "no partying, scrape by and work your ass off" work?
Also, one need not "go to college" to earn marketable skills. I understand you care, you want people to have nice things, but you cannot, it does not work to just throw money at the problem.
The path to success is hard work, not get rich quick scheming.
When I got out the Navy I had a 40Kjob lined up that fell through. I was making 8 bucks an hour and the wife (who has a degree) was working part time. We now broke 80K this year and she's on tap to get a quarter mil or better check when the company sells. We lived with very little, and busted our asses. Guess what? We didn't whine, we didn't demand high pay for **** work. We worked hard, I changed jobs, she did too eventually landing solid, salaried jobs.
Because we understood no one owed us anything, we didn't deserve a living wage, just because life was hard, we decided min wage wasn't enough and worked for better.
That concept, is lost to a whole generation of entitled ****s and the rest are brain washed into thinking that hard work is mean.
What I find funy is that soo many think that minimum wage jobs are not WORK. Yeah, it might not be complicated work in many cases. But to say that its not WORK? I'd love to see all those college educated "I'm better than you because I got a college degree" numbnuts dig ditches for a year for minimum wage. Or sit behind a hot stove cooking for hundreds of people that only care about feeding their faces and wouldn't even acknowledge your presense walking down the street. Or unload a semi truck loaded with TV's, VCR's, and 50 lb bags of food in 20 minutes by hand...no powered tools/machines.
If every minimum wage worker stopped working for one week this country, and any other country it happened in, all of those "highly educated" people would be in a world of hurt. Yeah, you could just hire more to do all that, but in the mean time you're in a world of hurt. Maybe then you'd actually appreciate minimum wage workers instead of just crapping on them.
... I don't crap on min wage workers or don't think it's not "work". I just crap on people who never move off min wage and demand pay that their work doesn't justify.
You most certainly did crap on min wage workers by saying that they don't "WORK". As if you somehow work harder than min wage workers. And it is nothing more than you're opinion that thier work doesn't justify it. Their work most certainly DOES entitle them to a decent living. The way things currently are the minimum wage worker does not get that decent living.
More purchasing power for a larger percentage of the population within a consumer economy = healthier consumer economy.
Wow amazing. I support them.
Assuming you mean higher wages equals purchasing power, that only works if there is value behind the wage. Otherwise, businesses just raise prices to account for higher costs, which means less purchasing power. So it cancels it out. If paying them more resulted in higher profits (productivity) in some way, then that would indeed be a healthier economy. It normally works the other way around. An employee demonstrates value and then gets compensation.
:roll: Yea because its about socialism. I just think they should get paid a $15 wage because it keeps up with productivity and inflation, and its also because ifs liveable, and allows more purchasing power.
Yeah, God forbid we pay them what the job is worth.
Yeah, a $15 "cheap" hamburger. :lol:
Μολὼν λαβέ;1063286891 said:Then the 20 and over crowd need to improve their skills to rise above minimum wage. The best way to do that is through education.
Professional, technical, vocational...
The Subway here has a tip jar by the register.
The idea of fast food (unskilled and untrained) are worth $15 an hour plus the burdens of employment (about 20%) is ridiculous.
There is a reason why McDonald's ordered 7,000 tablet order devices for its euro stores - they will get the bugs worked out and replace the people here who believe they should earn FAR more than they are worth.